SC - Digest 1960

[Philip & Susan Troy]

>
>Mordonna22 at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Since rum is made from sugar cane, and sugar was in production all 
>through
> > period, (even if expensive in some times and places), is there any hint 
>that
> > rum was made in period times?
>
>Rum is made specifically from molasses, and other sugar products, and
>specifically not until sugar production became cheap from sugar
>plantations in the West Indies. Not until the 17th century. So rum is
>not in period, but there is arrack, a late period Moghul distillate made
>from sugar cane.
>
>Seumas

I have an awsome hot rum toddy that I was hoping was at least close to 
period.

Magdalena Winter
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