[Sca-cooks] Blueberry/ Gooseberry Wine Documentation?

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> This is not to say that the Spanish were not indulging in the sugar plantation enterprise in the 1500's...
>  Indeed by the late 16th century the spanish were trading shiploads of
>sugar out of both Puerto Rico and the Canary Islands, which cargos were
>rich prizes for French and English privateers.
> But these efforts were nowhere near the scale that later came to
>dominate the Carribean. the bulk of the Spanish and Portuguese effort in
>the new world was in the extraction of Silver and some Gold from the
>Americas.

Actually, it was, according to Dalby, not long after 1700 that the crash
in the price of sugar came.

Up to that point, sugar was very popular _in cooking_ while I don't see a
lot of documentation for it in the few brewins sources. While it was used
as a spice it was also used medicinally, in syrups, candied things,
confects, and so forth.

The big boom in booze-related sugar use probably came later, when the
price dropped like a stone.

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