SC - Re: Honeycomb (was Gelatin Bees Wings)

[Elise Fleming]

At 6:23 PM +1000 10/22/98, Maynard, Steven wrote:
>This made me think.
>Is Honeycomb (a confectionry made with brown sugar and baking soda 
>[I'm not sure what it is called in other country's) period.

And David/Cariadoc replied:
>I am reasonably sure that the use of baking soda in baking is well out 
>of period--at least, I have been unable to find any references to it 
>earlier than about hte 18th century. I don't know if something similar 
>made without baking soda would be period or not.

There is a reference to using "hartshorn" (hart's horn) in at least one 
late German cookery book.  I think it was in the material Alia Atlas 
translated.  If memory serves, there was a discussion of it a few years 
ago on the Madrone Culinary List.  Hartshorn is still available in 
specialty markets.  In Cleveland there is a German import house which 
carries it.  It would have a similar action to baking powder.

Alys Katharine
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