SC - A sore subject.

[Cindy Renfrow]

Adamantius wrote:

>Oh, another little snippet. Some sugar paste recipes call for the 
>paste to be kneaded and rolled out with some rice flour to keep it 
>from sticking to the marble, don't they? I have no idea about 
>comparative percentages, but the final product would contains some 
>starch, just as it would if using modern confectioners' sugar.

Off the top of my head, I can't recall any of the _period_ ones that 
say that.  It might be that a) it was assumed you'd do so to prevent 
sticking; b) no one thought of it and didn't do so because they made 
the paste relatively non-sticky; c) this was a later addition OOP; d) 
they used more powdered sugar (see below) e) Alys can't remember well.

Now, I _should_ hop up from the computer and flip through some of my 
books but... I'm in the middle of double-checking the Pennsic schedule, 
so I will postpone it.  Rice flour would be a logical addition but what 
_I_ do is sprinkle additional powdered sugar on the board when it gets 
sticky.  Without looking at my cookery books, I would hazard that this 
might have been done during period rather than using rice flour.  In 
fact, I seem to recall (now that the brain cells are activating) that 
someone mentioned _not_ to use starch because that ruined it.  Which, 
then, would imply that some people _did_ use starch.  I gotta go look 
this stuff up!

Alys Katharine
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