[Sca-cooks] question...

[Terry Decker]

>Also sprach Robyn.Hodgkin at affa.gov.au:
>>Could anyone enlighten me as to what sugre of Alysaundre is?  Sugar
>>of something obviously, but what?
>>
>>Kiriel
>
>Alexandria? As opposed to sugre de Cyprus, for example?
>
>Adamantius

This is a pretty good bet, especially if the recipe is Elizabethean.  Sugar
was grown in the Nile delta.  Alexandria was the major Mediterranean trade
port in Egypt.  And there appears to have been an extensive sugar trade
between Islam and England after Henry VIII's Act of Supremecy closed off
European sugar sources.

Bear