SC - sugar

[Lee-Gwen Booth]

Unto the Gathered Cooks (and particularly Cairistiona) does Gwynydd send the
following:

Christina van Tets
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 5:08 AM


> Hi again - Gwynydd, that's a very odd reply setting you have - I'm not
sure
> I like the quotation marks around my name - as if the machine didn't
believe
> it's me... :)  Which it is, by the way.

I have moved my Cooks' List correspondence to Outlook Express - I haven't
got used to its idocyncracities yet.  I have removed the quotation marks
(and I give you full credit for seeing the obvious interpretation of them!
I have seen so many signs in windows which read, for example 'Tomatoes on
"special" today "only"!'  I never quite know how to read that!).

> Anyway, thanks for the info about making golden syrup, etc.  Is there any
> comparison list available?  I mean, I can get golden syrup easily enough
in
> Oz, but what do I look for in a country which prefers American
expressions?

I am not even sure that the Americans have anything like golden syrup - but
I could be wrong about that.  Unfortunately, there is no real substitute in
Anzacs - both honey and treacle leap to mind, but they would still not be
Anzac biscuits!

> Next sugar question:  do you have any list for comparison of non-English
> words for sugar?  I am currently struggling with an early modern Dutch
piece
> which refers to potsuiker, meelsuiker and brootsuiker (which might
translate
> as pot sugar, flour sugar and bread/loaf sugar, but I wouldn't bet on it).
> Doe anyone have any ideas on this?

Sorry, on this one my information pack from Bundaberg doesn't help - good
luck with the translations

Gwynydd of Culloden - Ynys Fawr, Lochac, Kingdom of the West