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

[Stefan li Rous]

Martha replied to me with:
> 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.
The only thing I can think of that fits this idea of the modern 
valentine candy would be sugar paste, which is included in the last 
file I mentioned previously:
sugar-paste-msg  (104K)  6/29/03    Making sugar paste sotelties.

I think the result with sugar paste is closer to the valentine candy 
than say marzipan because the proportion of sugar is higher.

Possibly sugar icing, but that is a different use and probably not so 
solid.
Sugar-Icing-art   (36K) 11/10/01    "Sugar Icing" by Johnnae llyn 
Lewis. Some
                                        notes on sugar icing in late 
period.
sugar-icing-msg    (6K)  1/16/02    Period sugar icing/frosting.
> 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...
Well, sugar itself was thought to have "medicinal" properties. Often 
thought of as the perfect food.

Stefan
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