[Sca-cooks] Gum Arabic WAS parlor tricks
Robin Carroll-Mann
rcmann4 at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 25 12:12:01 PDT 2005
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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.)
Brighid ni Chiarain
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
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