SC - Sweets to serve with hot drinks

[david friedman]

At 4:50 AM +1000 6/28/00, Lee-Gwen Booth wrote:
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>From: David Friedman
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>  > The major difference is that it is being pulled
>  > like taffy as the final step.
>
>I wonder if it has to be pulled?  (I want quick things and don't want to
>start playing with pulled sweets just yet, anyway - my kitchen is really not
>ready for that!)  The way it is in the recipe I found reminds me of a sesame
>bar which is readily available here.  This is certainly not a pulled sweet.
>Perhaps (clutching at straws!) both versions were around?

Entirely possible--you can find lots of candy recipes in the Islamic 
cookbooks. I gave that one both because, except for the final step, 
it was so similar, and because it is one of the earliest medieval 
recipes we have.

Of course, it might really be a classical recipe--much of the 
contents of Mappae Clavicula seems to be stuff from classical 
antiquity.

David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
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http://www.daviddfriedman.com/