[Sca-cooks] Very early sugar candy recipes- 12th century

[Johnna Holloway]

Malt sugar is very old and still used in the Chinese sugar animals.
http://kaleidoscope.cultural-china.com/en/8Kaleidoscope7248.html
Sugar cane is apparently from the Tang period. I have a volume called Sugar and Society in China which covers the history of sugar in China. 
Harvard put it out some years ago. Not a volume one is likely to buy these days. Bit pricey.

Johnna

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> On Feb 24, 2017, at 8:04 PM, Alec Story <avs38 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> If it's of interest I have a few 6th century recipes for malt sugar from
> China.
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