SC - Re: Pickled egg recipes -- BEETS?
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Wed Oct 22 13:03:32 PDT 1997
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> I think that the sugar beet is actually period. There is a European Castle
> that I saw on A&E that was from the 1400's that has sugar beets as part of
> the Device of the owners, a baron something or other. I will try to find
> the particulars.
>
> Lord Jonathus Fitche d'Abercrombie
> >>
> Oh, please do, Jon! I've been interested in growing them sometime and
>trying to make sugar. Or at least use them to sweeten baked goods for my
>mother, who is allergic to cane sugar, among many other things...........
>Anyone else have info on them?
>
> Ldy Diana
While the sugar beet may be period, extraction of beet sugar apparently
isn't. Commercial sugar extraction from beets is a 19th century thing.
I suspect the sugar beet was subjected to careful breeding to produce a
better raw material for sugar. I did a fast filler for the Black Star
some time ago, but I was very cursory in researching beet sugar since
production was OOP.
In the case of an allergy, I'd use the beet sugar, or experiment with
honey or malt extract.
Bear
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