Hear that?

That is the sound of me being sucked slowly into heraldry. It's been happening quietly over the last few years.

I am getting better at understanding how people were using heraldry. How it was used on clothing, banners, animals, food and now ships. Different cultures all had different ways of marking their territory. I find this part of heraldry quite fascinating.

I won't claim to be "a herald". But I rather love knowing what can be done with heraldry.

Apothecaries

It started as an innocent question. How available gum tragacanth was to the average medieval cook? All the recipes call for it, but how easily could someone like Robert May, a cook, get his hands on this chemical. This would help answer what the difference in subtleties between a cook, a confectioner and choices of materials.
( So I poked around a bit. )

Now the question becomes, how much of this is relevant to the documentation of sugar paste. I've only got 3 pages.