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

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> > The Mongols are from the northern and northwest deserts of
China/Mongolia.
> > Sugar cane doesn't grow there.  Not much grows there except spotty grass
> and
> > gravel.  Milk was probably the easiest thing to ferment.  And remember,
> the
> > Mongols didn't start moving into those cane growing regions until late
in
> > the 12th Century and by the time they got to India, the were Moslems.
> >
> > Bear

> The Yinshan zhengyao certainly knows sugar, but no evidence they fermented
> it. I think the Mongols preferred starting with milk or fruit drinks. Note
> that they used freeze distillation too.
>
> Paul (Buell)

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