[Sca-cooks] Period Peeps?

[Terry Decker]

Spanish and Portuguese libra were a 16 onca pound ranging between 1.011 and 
1.016 percent of the period English pound (avoirdupois, close to the modern 
U.S. pound), so roughly 460 grams.

Bear

> Okay, some stupid questions that probably aren't issues, but might
> be. Is a pound sixteen modern ounces in this case? Again, what kind
> of sugar did you use? Ideally, you should be allowing each increment
> of added sugar to dissolve in the egg whites (eventually, it's
> probably icing rather than egg whites) before adding more.
>
> Adamantius