[Sca-cooks] Sugar was Clotted Cream
    Huette von Ahrens 
    ahrenshav at yahoo.com
       
    Tue Apr  4 13:20:27 PDT 2006
    
    
  
Keine Ursache.  Huette
--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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