[Gatesedge] Anyone up for trivia regarding candy?

Dan Brandow dbrandow at concentric.net
Tue Jun 19 21:32:38 PDT 2001


Mills, Scott wrote:

> Beet sugar is real sugar.  You have doubtless eaten it many time and if you
> have lived much north of Texas you likely bought refined sugar in the
> grocery store that came from sugar beets.
>
> Approximately 40% of refined sugar comes from sugar beets and the pulp is an
> important livestock food source.  Sugar cane is grown in tropical climates
> while sugar beets are grown in more temperate climates.  Virtually all of
> the sugar produced in Europe today is from sugar beets.
>
> The use of various types of sugar cane to produce sugar is older than the
> use of sugar beets.  Refined sugar from cane has been around for much longer
> that you think, at least since 500 BC.  Beets have only been used for the
> last several hundred years.  However, you are correct that it is the new
> world that made sugar widely available.  The huge cane plantations of the
> Caribbean, South and Central America allowed processed sugar (and Rum) to
> move to the tables of the common man and it started happening in period
> although late period for the SCA.
>
> For a quick but not complete resource see
> http://www.cup.org/Books/kiple/sugar.htm
>
> Regards,
>
> Eadric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peer2 [mailto:Peer2 at email.msn.com]
> Hmmm...
>
> Seems like I've heard of different stuff. Candied fruit peels and the like.
> I do know that they used the pulp and juice of sugar beets, since real sugar
> wasn't around until they found sugar cane in the New World.
>
> -- Cedric.
>
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What about crystallized honey?  That's good stuff, and great for baking.
                                                   Ekaterina




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