[Sca-cooks] Succet/Sucket Candy?

[Stefan li Rous]

Martha asked:
> Please tell me more about this succet candy!  This is something I'm 
> just
> gettng started trying to find out about.
Are you specifically interested in suckets or period candying or period 
candy in general? I believe the suckets were just a candy variant, more 
moist or in a liquid, than say candy or candied peel or comfits. 
However, sometimes the lines are a bit fuzzy about where one ends and 
the other begins. So you might want to look through these various files 
in the FOOD-SWEETS section of the Florilegium:
suckets-msg        (7K)  4/ 1/02    Spices, fruit or fruit peel in a 
sugar syrup
comfits-msg       (44K)  9/ 1/02    Period candied spices and seeds. 
Recipes.
candied-peel-msg  (51K)  3/27/04    Candied fruit peels. A late period 
treat.
candy-msg        (192K) 12/27/03    Period candy. Recipes. Candied 
fruit peels.
Sgr-a-Cnftns-art  (20K) 12/26/00    "Of Sugar and Confections" by Alys
                                        Katharine, O.L., O.P. (Elise 
Fleming).
sugar-paste-msg  (104K)  6/29/03    Making sugar paste sotelties.

Stefan
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