[Sca-cooks] Gum Arabic WAS parlor tricks

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

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From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>

I'm not sure to what  
extent Gum Arabic is used in period cookery or confectionery, but  
other gums (primarily gums tragacanth and benzoin, a.k.a. gum dragon  
and benjamin, respectively, in some period sources) are used mostly  
as either edible adhesives or to change the textures of various  
foods, mostly confections. 
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Gum arabic appears in some of the confectionary receipes in the Anonymous Andalusian.

(Incidently, I tossed a pea-sized lump of it into a couple of inches of diet root beer, and nothing happened.  Perhaps it needs to be powdered.)



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