[Sca-cooks] malt

[Stefan li Rous]

Bear, I think Lyse meant using the barley malt as a sweetener. You are 
talking about ale barm as a leavening agent, right? Not as a sweetener.

I do have this tiny file on malt, but I don't remember it saying 
anything about using malt as a sweetener.
malt-msg         (12K) 12/29/99   Period use of malted grain. Modern 
sources.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PLANTS/malt-msg.html

Stefan

> The pre-1600 recipes and descriptions I've seen don't mention barley 
> malt,
> but it would probably have been in the ale barm for those breads that 
> were
> not leavened with sourdough.  The first mention I can remember for 
> malt in
> bread is Markham in the early 17th Century.
>
> Bear
>
> > Would barley malt have been used instead or sugar?
> > Lyse
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