fruit preserves (was [Sca-cooks] sad)

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 20 Dec 2002, at 13:34, Nick Sasso wrote:

> The use of large quantities of sugar to make jam-like products appears
> mostly after 1600, unless someone has other info.

It depends on the area you're talking about.  The Middle East and
Mediterranean Europe had sugar before northern Europe.  The 14th
century Catalan confectionary manual that is webbed on Thomas
Gloning's site has 1/3 to 1/2 of the recipes made with sugar; the
rest are made with honey.
http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/confits.htm


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