[Sca-cooks] recipes without honey

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> A member of my barony not on the list posed the question about 
>the use of honey in feast recipes when there are known to be several 
>members present who are diabetic and can't eat honey. Her concern is 
>that with the prevalence of honey as a sweetenerin our period, that she 
>wouldn't be able to find enough recipes to cook to offer an alternative 
>"sweet" dish in her feast menus that those people could eat that she 
>could still serve to everyone. Any thoughts?

I'm a bit confused by this: if you have people in your local barony who
are diabetic, your concern would be avoiding having too many sweet
dishes in general. Even if the dish is sweetened with sugar, the
diabetics will not be able to eat it. There are certainly many
sugar-sweetened dishes and many dishes with sugar as a spice in them in
period. 

I guess you could substitute a sugar substitute for the sugar in some 
dishes, but many of the parents in our local group won't allow their 
kids to eat things with artificial sweeteners in them.

Is she looking for recipes for particular dishes? 

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