Thank you. I'm really glad you think it right to give Frodo a purpose; sitting around and just admiring the view seems so unhobbit-like to me!

You could probably just get away with ordinary granulated sugar - I'm not sure just how finely Richard 2nd's cooks would have ground their sugar anyway!

And the cinnamon biscuits/cookies are one of the very first things my daughter learn to make - probably me, too, but I can't remember not knowing how to make them, if you see what I mean!