[Sca-cooks] question about breads
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Fri Jun 3 21:41:25 PDT 2005
Bear commented:
> Period breads don't use sugar.
I'm curious why you are so sure of this. I realize that sugar probably
wasn't cheap enough until at least the 16th century to be used this
way. There seem to awfully few recipes though to make this statement
from. Or do you have some other information that indicates this?
In a regular, modern bread how much sugar is used? I assume this is a
small quantity used for something other than sweetening the bread. Is
this for the yeast? Or is this similar to what we discussed here
before, where just a touch of sugar doesn't really sweeten the taste of
item, but brings out other flavors?
Does honey have this same effect?
Stefan
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