[Sca-cooks] Re: Spun Sugar

[Carole Smith]

I have a vivid memory of getting some hot sugar syrup on my fingers once.  It held a lot of heat and was hard to wash off quickly because of its viscosity.  No way would I voluntarily make a sugar thread this way.  
 
Cordelia Toser  

Elise Fleming <alysk at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
I would agree that it was used to determine sugar temperature in period. I suppose some folk might say that if they could dip their finger into hot syrup and make a thread between thumb and finger that they could have extrapolated that to using an instrument to wave sugar threads around into a pattern, but one thing doesn't necessarily follow another - or we'd have had lots more inventions earlier on. I haven't seen any evidence in English books, nor references to things made like that. The "faulty translation" reference that Johanna gave was the only one I'd seen for "proof".

Alys Katharine 

		
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