[Sca-cooks] How old are sugared almonds?

[Johnna Holloway]

By the time one gets to the early 14th or 13th centuries
there aren't that many surviving recipe collections anyway.
Recipes circa 1300 and earlier?
It's dark for everyone. Regular recipes are hard to locate for those eras.
Confectionary recipes are even harder to find. There are mentions in
apothecary literature and in household accounts that such things were
purchased or available for purchase, but recipes for them????

Johnnae

>That's what I thought. I can place them in the fifteenth century, and unless 
>I'm much mistaken the 'epices de chambre' mentioned in the fourteenth use a 
>similar process, but before that it gets dark for me. I haven't done much 
>sugar cooking or related research, though. Giano
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