[Sca-cooks] treacle RE: German Breads

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

Comment: treacle in period would not be sugar syrup, but a medicine made
from a variety of ingredients whose recipe we are not sure of. It's
documented all over the place, but there are few and conflicting recipes.

> Long shot here - how about the use of fruit pulp instead of molasses or
> honey, say pounded raisens?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Treacle and molasses come out of the sugarmaking process, so my argument
> against their use in period German bread is same. >
> Let me say that this is my analysis and interpetation of the situation and
> that I have no direct evidence of the use or non-use of molasses in the
> German States during the 15th and 16th Centuries.
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