[Sca-cooks] Re: Sugar Plate Again

[Lady Orlaith of Storvik]

Okay so I have a question.  I've been trying to find the beginnings of
hard candy for making things like pulled sugar and I haven't had much luck
so far.  Does anyone have a beginning date for such things?  Or any
suggestions on sources?

Orlaith

Lady Orlaith of Storvik
Exchequer, Barony of Storvik
Personal Secretary to Lady Roxanne Greenstreet

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>
> Agreed.  And, sugar paste is in _no way_ Roman.  I don't know when the
> first documented Italian recipe was printed, but the English was in the
> middle of the 1500s.  I don't believe that sugar paste
> existed (much? at all?) prior to 1500 or the late 1400s.  It's
> primary time is the 1600s and 1700s.
>
> Alys Katharine