[Sca-cooks] Historic Near East Spice Boxes

[Terry Decker]

By the 13th Century, sugar refining was about 1000 years old.  Refined white
sugar was available as were the cruder grades.  Today's process is very
similar to the original process.  We have better quality control, better
clearing agents and centrifuges, but I doubt a sugar maker of the time would
have little problem following the process.

Bear


> You suggest the camping box of each of these pack white sugar?  How
> white was their sugar, or do we have any actual idea?   I tend not to go
> lighter than turbinado when using cane sugar at all for the SCA milieu,
> and prefer to put Piloncillo cones on the table.  But that's just me.
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> Selene