FW: The coffee roasting pan (wasRe: SC - Royal declared chocolate period)
Decker, Margaret
margaret at Health.State.OK.US
Wed Feb 3 08:08:57 PST 1999
Mike Young wrote:
>
> I would think the marshmallow cream stuff you get in the jar would be
> closer to period-ish than the puffed marshmallows in the bag. The
> jet-puffing thing was added after 1700. My 7 year old actually told me
> about the mallow root thing. She got it from an episode of "Magic School
> Bus":-)
> gwyneth
I think I saw that. Actual marshmallow "sap" is a sweet, mucilaginous
gum, somewhat translucent, but not the creamy white stuff you're
thinking of. If eaten in period it was presumably taken for medicinal purposes.
Adamantius
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