[Sca-cooks] No Sugar in 10th Century??

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Audrey Bergeron-Morin wrote:
>
> Well, I thought that maybe if spices were so expensive they might tend to
> exaggerate a bit in the written recipes to impress someone reading it. (Wow,
> that guy put that much spice in that dish, he must be very rich or very
> generous to serve his guests that much of it)

My own suspicion is that if he were very rich and very generous, he
would have a scribe perform the extremely meticulous and expensive task
of copying out a real cookbook and giving it to someone...

Adamantius