Sweetened Butter? (was Re: SC - Harvest Moon Shoot proposed menu)

[margali]

So my take on it is a combination of rosewater and sugar would be appropriate
for flavoring butter?
margali


> BTW, Plat was an Elizabethan, and while honey may have been more prevalent
> than sugar, sugar was not in short supply.  Increased production by the
> European nations, primarily Spain and Portugal had cut into the Islamic
> sugar trade.  As a result, sugar prices dropped to the place where sugar
> became an upper and middle class indulgence rather than a low volume luxury
> good.  The Elizabethans loved their sugar.
>
> Bear