[Sca-cooks] Re: Sugar Plate Again

[Elise Fleming]

Iago wrote:
>For sugar plate dishes you will need to make them
>a bit thicker, and make sure that they are kept very
>dry or they will fall apart when you try and lift them up.

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