BBC2 tonight at 20.00 the first part of The Sweet Makers. Four confectioners go back to the past to recreate what life was like then and make sweet dishes and sweets of that time.
Tonight it's A Tudor Treat. It's about sugar. Their final lavish sugar banquet includes candied roses (believed to cure gonorrhea), a sweet candied root that was considered to be a Tudor aphrodisiac, sugar plates and goblets, gorgeously decorated marzipan and a spectacular model banqueting house made entirely of sugar.
As it's about history as well as being entertaining it does look at the slave trade with the production and transportation of sugar,
It's a short 3 part series. Next Wednesday is A Georgian Treat and the following week A Victorian Treat.
