[Sca-cooks] question: Medieval restaurant at Pennsic

[Stefan li Rous]

Adamantius commented:
> How about several period fruit syrups over shaved ice, essentially a
> snow-cone, which may well be period?
16th century I think. See "Harvest of the Cold Months"(?) that we've 
discussed previously.
> The main difficulty I can see is
> that it might be seen to have a rather unattractively low profit
> margin.
Yes and you would be competing with the folks that already do similar 
ice slush drinks using commercial syrups. And unfortunately, I couldn't 
eat this, or I would have to limit my intake. So would many other 
people. Not what you want commercially. :-) Of course the fruit syrups 
would probably be better for me than the largely sugar based commercial 
ones, fructose being better than sucrose. Now, a close to period slushy 
using nutrasweet or artifical sweetener would be nice, but we are 
getting further from period items.

Stefan
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