[Sca-cooks] Chinese Honey was malt sugar

[Alec Story]

I recently was doing some digging to support a Chinese mead (I was going to
enter the Laurel Challenge Tourney in Carolingia, but alas it conflicts
with a local event).  I read through every mention of the word for honey (
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%9C%9C)* on ctext.org, looking for
references.

Most were things like "honey-sweet" or "as sweet as honey," but there were
a few interesting other ones.

Apparently mei-plums (*Prunus mume*) were preserved in honey during our
period.  If someone is interested I can try to dig up the actual lines that
this involved, although I don't recall coming across more than just
references to the practice.

I did finally find some mead references.  I blog about them here
http://brewing.alecstory.org/2016/11/chinese-mead.html and here
http://brewing.alecstory.org/2016/12/a-mead-recipe.html.  I haven't tried
the mead yet, although it's probably done.

* I've been informed that this list does not support unicode.  As a
sinologist, this makes me very sad :(

- Thorfinnr

On Feb 27, 2017 3:48 PM, "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote:

> This discussion of Ancient Asiatic sweeteners got me to wondering about
> the honey bee in China.  Here is an interesting paper I came across,
> http://labs.biology.ucsd.edu/nieh/papers/Lau2012.pdf .
>
> Bear
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