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(lilian) wrote:

> David Friedman > wrote:
>
> > Sugar in the Middle Ages was coming to Europe from the Islamic world,
> > not from India and the Orient.
>
> ??
>
> > And I believe the making of fruit
> > preserves in Europe only happens towards the end of the sixteenth
> > century, when sugar was becoming less expensive because it was being
> > imported by sea from the West Indies.
>
> ??
>
> > I believe C. Anne Wilson discusses
> > the subject in _Food and Drink in Britain_--and I'm pretty sure I
> > haven't seen any sugar preserved fruit recipes in the 14th or 15th c.
> > English recipe corpus.
>
> I don't know what she writes, but I hope I asked yourself what the term
> "candy sugar" refers to

It refers to crystalized sugar.

Is your point etymological? I think our word "candy" comes from an
Indian language via Arabic, and originally meant sugar cane. But that
tells us nothing at all about where the sugar being used in medieval
Europe came from. "Pajamas" comes from Persian, but my pajamas don't
come from Persia.

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