[Sca-cooks] Sugar was Clotted Cream

[Huette von Ahrens]

Penguin Companion to Food, page 919, written by Ralph Hancock.

"The root of the plant was originally small and disagreeable in flavour, but
with a noticeably sweet taste.  As early as 1590 the French botanist Olivier de
Serres managed to extract a sugar syrup from it.  In those days cane sugar was
still very expensive, so his discovery might have been exploited, but nothing
came of it at the time."

Huette

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> > While there is evidence that one scientist in 1590 experimented with 
> > making beet
> > sugar, nothing came of his experiments.
> >
> > Huette
> 
> Reference, please.
> 
> Bear 
> 
> 
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