Sweet History
Canned milk gave the world a set of desserts that need no dairy nearby
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Sweet History
Where a dessert came from, and what it displaced when it arrived.
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Sweet History
Iberian convent sweets are built on egg yolks because somebody wanted the whites
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Sweet History
Europe learned to make sugar from beet because it could not get any
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Sweet History
Ice was once harvested, shipped and sold like any other cargo
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Sweet History
The baker and the pastrycook were separate trades on purpose
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Sweet History
A dessert becomes national by being claimed rather than invented
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Sweet History
The moulded jelly was a display of wealth before it was a nursery pudding
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Sweet History
Machinery, not recipes, turned confectionery into an everyday purchase
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