SC - Couple of questions for ya'll...

[David Friedman]

>Greetings!
>
>OK, I have some questions for everyone.  The first is to settle a
>discussion a friend and I had a few weeks ago.  We were discussing the
>ingredient sugar in period recipies.  It occured to us that the first
>time we can recall hearing about sugar cane is in the New World,
>particularly in terms of rum production.  Neither of us could think of
>any period reference for molassas or rum.  So, we figured that the sugar
>being called for might be beet sugar.  If we're right, then very late
>period might have used cane sugar, but not earlier periods.  Does anyone
>know what is right?

Cane sugar is old world, and was being grown in the Islamic world in the
Middle Ages. You can find a discussion of the history of molasses/treacle
in C. Anne Wilson's _Food and Drink in Britain_ (or a title close to that).

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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