You wrote --- > Dishes we might find impossibly sweet were not uncommon. I've seen Renaissance Italian recipes for carmelized pasta -- more like a dessert than a main dish.. Harold McGee notes French and English used sugar in< This is a very famous dessert that was a favorite of the de Medici's. Hopefully they did not include poison. -- Andie Paysinger & the PENDRAGON Basenjis,Teafer,Cheesy,Singer & Player asenji@earthlink.net So. Calif. USA "In the face of adversity, be patient, in the face of a basenji, be prudent, be canny, be on your guard!" http://home.earthlink.net/~asenji/