[Sca-cooks] Sugar was Clotted Cream

[Terry Decker]

Danke.  Bear.

> 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