SC - A Mixed Bag (So to Speak)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Kathleen M Everitt wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:52:41 -0500 (CDT) alysk at ix.netcom.com (Elise
> Fleming ) writes:
> 
> >Saw someone's last name of "Sugar" and became really excited
> >(momentarily!) thinking that someone wanted to start a thread about
> >confections or sugar.  Sigh-h-h!
> >
> 
> >Alys Katharine
> 
> So, why don't you start one?
> 
> Okay, I will. I saw a science program for kids called Beakman's World and
> he gave a recipe for making sugar "glass" like they use in movies. It
> used Karo syrup. How did they make it in period? I saw a documentary on
> Lorenzo Medici and they said that he had a lot of things made from candy
> glass at his wedding. I've always wondered how it was done.
> 
> Julleran

Any sugar cooked to the hard crack stage can be worked like glass. I
even have a gizmo that is for "glass-blowing" sugar syrups, but I
haven't developed any skill with it yet. Check out the "Goud Kokery"
volume of "Curye on Inglysche" for fifteenth-century sugar plate recipes
resembling sugar glass, as opposed to the later ones which call for
making a paste with gum tragacanth, etc.

Adamantius
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