Produkcja i konsumpcja słodyczy w wybranych państwach włoskich w XIV i XV wieku
Production and Consumption of Sweets in Italy in the 14th and 15th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the characteristics of production and consumption rules of particular types of sweets consumed in the selected Italian cities of Northern and Central parts of the Apennine Peninsula — Genoa, Milan, Venice and Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries. The author brings forth the terminology of later medieval Italian sweets, and discusses methods (e.g. heat treatment of sugar) and production regulations (e.g. productions of candies with added fruits or almond paste). A separate section deals with the issue of circumstances when sweets were consumed in the selected Italian cities in the 14th and 15th centuries. The source documents were Italian cookbooks "Anonimo lucano", "Anonimo padovano","De honesta voluptate et valetudine" written by Bartlomeo Sacchi (known as Platina), a compilation of recipes known as "Anonimo neapolitano", as well as medical and pharmaceutical sources (Ambrogio Oderico "De sanitate regenda consilium", Paula Suardo "Thesaurus apothecariorum", and by anonymous author "Medicinalia quam plurima").

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