[Sca-cooks] powdered sugar redux
Anne-Marie Rousseau
dailleurs at liripipe.com
Mon Aug 7 16:20:01 PDT 2006
on powdered sugar(s)...
I guess for me, my first choice would be:
for recipes calling for powdered sugar with starch, I'd aim for grinding sugar and adding wheat starch
(available in some asian markets) or rice starch (ditto...rice would be whiter...) as a first choice.
if I couldnt find those starches, then I might consider modern powdered sugar.
dont get me wrong, I use modern powdered sugar in some recipes. its easy, its available, its cheap. but I
do so fully acknowleging that my end result may or may not be approximating the results our medieval
counterparts would have gotten.
just my opinion, of course :)
--Anne-Marie
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