Fw: [Sca-cooks] Re: Blown Sugar is Chinese Apparently

[Phlip]

Passed Stefan's question along to Paul Buell.

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> > I always thought the Mongols must have been rather desperate to use  
> > milk as their sugar source for their alcohol. But if cane sugar was  
> > as common as mentioned above, I'd think the Mongols would have used  
> > sugar, not milk.
> > 
> > Stefan


> Mongols used milk because of prestige and taste. They certainly had wild
> berries and things...and certainly had distilled booze...
> 
> Paul

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