[Sca-cooks] Re: Sugar plate and mastic?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Stefan li Rous:
>Going through some back digest from when I was off at Gulf Wars I
>saw:
>>  Also sprach <alysk at ix.netcom.com>:
>>  >A local person ma=
>>  >de it with gum arabic once and the consistency and taste was not the same.
>>
>>  Yes, but could you blow bubbles with it?
>>
>>  Adamantius
>
>Can you really blow bubbles with correctly made sugar paste?

No, but if you look at the ingredients of bubble gum, sugar and gum
arabic are high on the list, so I expect such a paste might bear a
closer resemblance to bubble gum than to sugar paste made with the
more traditional gums, tragacanth and, I think, sometimes benzoin.

Adamantius