[Sca-cooks] Sugar was Clotted Cream

[Huette von Ahrens]

Me too.  It is to die for...

Huette

PS: Put it on your list for the wedding.  It is worth competing with the cake...

--- Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Now I want to try to make strawberry preserves with honey.  Not sure 
> about specific proportions, I will probably just cover hulled berries 
> with sugar and let them cook until done.
> 
> I am just tickled to death with the original article.  I dearly love 
> cream tea.
> 
> Selene
> 
> Micheal wrote:
> 
> >   Just things arising from Stefan`s comment,
> > " And how would they have been preserved?
> > Honey? That's too early for sugar and other info tends to point to
> > quince as the first fruit preserves."
> > Surprised you can say
> >
> >    Cealian
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Decker" 
> > <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
> > To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 2:32 PM
> > Subject: [Sca-cooks] Sugar was Clotted Cream
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>> If sugar is only from cane or beet then what were they making candy 
> >>> out of in different civilizations?
> >>
> >>
> >> Honey has been used as a sweetner since the Paleolithic.  There is a 
> >> cave painting showing honey gathering.
> >>
> >> Sugar cane has been around almost as long, but was only introduced to 
> >> Europeans around 325 BCE (reference Pliny) when Alexander's armies 
> >> moved into Northern India.  Sugar cane moved north into Mesopotamia 
> >> and was brought into the Mediterranean basin by the Islamic expansion 
> >> in the 8th and 9th Centuries.  Sugar refining may have occurred as 
> >> early as 500 BCE and refining to white sugar was practiced by 500 CE.
> >>
> >> Originally used as a medicine in Antiquity, after the introduction of 
> >> cane to the Mediterranean it was used as a spice and a culinary 
> >> ingredient for most of the Middle Ages.  Production and use increased 
> >> in the late 15th Century leading to an explosion of use in the 16th 
> >> Century and massive investment in cane plantations in the Caribbean 
> >> in the 17th Century.
> >>
> >> Beet sugar is strictly a modern innovation.  In 1747, Andreas 
> >> Sigismund Marggraf determined that beets and carrots contained small 
> >> amounts of sugar and he developed the initial extraction process.  In 
> >> 1793, Franz Carl Achard introduces a commercial extraction process.  
> >> Around 1810, Napoleonic France started the first serious production 
> >> of beet sugar after the Royal Navy began blockading French ports.  
> >> Beet sugar production collapsed after the Napoleonic Wars.
> >>
> >> A high sugar variant of the Silesian white beet developed in the 19th 
> >> Century and rising sugar prices made beet sugar production profitable.
> >>
> >>> When using  honey to make candy is not one of the steps 
> >>> crystallization? What would that be called ?
> >>> Cealian
> >>
> >>
> >> You need the candy makers to anwser this one.
> >>
> >> Bear
> >
> 
> 
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