[Sca-cooks] Seeking Improvement

[johnna holloway]

Bear, HRH Alys Katharine, and Adamantius
did their part on this subject... You can also
take a look at: Davidson's Oxford Companion, the
2 volume Cambridge World History of Food, C. Anne
Wilson Food and Drink in Britain, etc. Having
done that massive article on Sugar Icing recipes
in the fall, I can state that YES they had cane
sugar. [Sugar-Icing-art "Sugar Icing" by Johnnae
llyn Lewis. Some notes on sugar icing in late period. at
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/idxfood-sweet.html ]
There's files there on sugar use...
Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis


bill mayfield wrote:
>>    According to the More skilled and vastily superior Laurel
>     person the only sugar available to the noble households
>    of the 12-14th century were Date and Beet Sugars,my unskilled
>    and poorly read self believe that cane sugar was available
>     to them,mostly as a "medicinal" yet also in food-stuffs
>    preperation.>   May I ask for suggestons on where to find documentation
>    on Cane sugar,if it was used,and how was used in Medieval cookery.
> >       Æthelwülf