SC - RE:[TY] cooking query

[cclark at vicon.net]

Cadoc wrote:
>yeah, probably removing detrius from the sugar, it was pretty standard since 
>nothing was really clean then.  Period brewers did it as well, sometimes 
>even before ingredients were added.

Who or what is "detrius?"

And how do we know that nothing was clean? Maybe nothing was zestfully clean
(:-/), but I believe that they had things like soap and water back then. I
suspect that some things were cleaner back then than most things are today.

Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon

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