SC - Sugar Stuff! Was: Cane Honey??

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Elise Fleming wrote:

> Here's another paragraph (p. 61):  "Sugar was sometimes purchased as a
> liquid, 'mel de calamele' or 'mel sucre' as it was called; sometimes in
> treated form, perfumed with rosewater or with essence of violets --
> 'sucre roset' in France, 'zuchero rosato' or 'violato' in Italy."

Sounds suspiciously similar to the syrup on Baklava, doesn't it? Sounds
like cane honey, too, given the translations of "mel sucre", etc.

Adamantius 
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