[Sca-cooks] Re: Succet/Sucket Candy?

[Martha Carey Oser]

Stefan, 

Thanks for your suggestions.  My 'project' started out as a discussion 
regarding the candy conversation hearts you get at Valentine's Day and their 
"period-ness".  I was told that there was a kind of starch and sugar candy 
sort of like the conversation hearts in period and this has expanded into 
the comfit/sucket question.  So I'm on the hunt now for something along 
those lines - not the seed/spice-based comfit and not candied fruit peels, 
but a candy (maybe a hard candy?) that perhaps had medicinal qualities 
attributed to it...  Dame Hauviette is giving me some direction on this, and 
she knows there's a reference out there somewhere, but can't think of it. 

I've looked at some of the files in the Florilegium that you've suggested, 
but I don't think I've gone through the sugar and confections one, so I 
guess I'll take a look at that next. 

Any other suggestions/references that anyone has would be most welcome. 

Thanks! 

Martha 


Stefan li Rous writes: 

> 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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