[Sca-cooks] Oh, My Aching Comfits!

[Heleen Greenwald]

My Lady,
When I was reading about your work with making confits, I was  
wondering about gum arabic so I looked it up. OK, so now I am  
convinced that you can eat the stuff.....but I have a bottle of gum  
arabic that I use in calligraphy.... and I would never eat THAT  
stuff... Is it the same thing??
Phillipa

gum arabic

NOUN:
A gum exuded by various African trees of the genus Acacia, especially  
A. senegal, used in the preparation of pills and emulsions and the  
manufacture of mucilage and candies and in general as a thickener and  
colloidal stabilizer. Also called acacia .




On Jan 10, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Elise Fleming wrote:

> gum Arabic