[Sca-cooks] Honey Butter? No! No!

[Maggie MacDonald]

At 10:49 PM 3/5/02,Stefan li Rous said something like:
>Serena da Riva commented:
> > I have an aversion to serving butter of any kind because of it's
> prevalance.
> >
> > So, instead of butter I made a Orange Marmalade. I made it almost 4 weeks
> > ahead of time and it kept in the fridge nicely.
> >
> > Nobody seemed to notice that there was no butter!
>
>I'm not sure that orange marmalade is an improvement, at least as
>far as authenticity goes.
>
>Any particular area that this feast was for? Early or late in the
>SCA time period?
>
>Sweet oranges were very late in period. I can't remember when the
>sour orange was introduced. However, either probably requires a
>fair amount of sugar. Heavily sugared foods were not common earlier.


I've been visiting Korea, so I missed the start of this convo.

I have a question though. Was this marmalade heavily sugared? Any time that
I've made it, I barely sugared it at all. (Then again, my taste in
marmalades is very odd. I include peels, pits, and everything.)

Regards,
Maggie MacD.