[Sca-cooks] powdered sugar question take 2

[Stefan li Rous]

Bear,

Do you mean the albumen is used today? Or in period? Or both?

Stefan

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You get white sugar by leeching out all of the molasses, the removing
the remaining impurities with albumen.

Bear

 > Seems to me we've had this discussion before.  ISTR that the upper  
classes
 > and royalty had access to white sugar.
 >
 > Lady Anne du Bosc
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