[Sca-cooks] question about breads

[Stefan li Rous]

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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