[Sca-cooks] Blown Sugar is Chinese Apparently
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Tue Oct 25 20:37:23 PDT 2005
Pure speculation on my part, but consider that blown glass appears to have
originated around 50 BCE (possibly in the Roman Empire) and that it was
transmitted to China by Persian glassblowers between the 2nd and 3rd
Centuries. It may be that sugarblowing is an offshoot of glassblowing that
occurred when sugar became plentiful and available and candymakers and
glassblowers were in close proximity.
There is a very good chance that sugarblowing was developed independently in
China and Europe and that differences in the availability of sugar account
for the temporal differences in sugarblowing.
I haven't worked on the veracity of the dates, so take this with a grain of
salt.
Bear
<clipped>
> So folks--
> I guess we have a probable source for blown sugar candy in China during
> the Song
> Dynasty. (Northern Song 960–1279) and (Southern Song 1127-1279).
>
> Of course the question still remains – did this make its way to the West
> and when?
>
>
> Johnnae llyn Lewis
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