SC - Cane Honey??

[Mark Harris]

Alys Katharine asked:

>Could the reference to "cane honey" be the incomplete curing of a 
>sugar loaf?  Sugar loaves sometimes were incompletely cured, leaving a 
>liquid residue in the middle.  

Perhaps I just need to go look up how sugar was/is made, but what is
this curing of the sugar loaf. Isn't this just the evaporation of the
water left in the sugar? If so, wouldn't this liquid then be the same
as solution of sugar and water? If so, I would expect the medieval cook
to make his own from sugar and water rather than hunt around for an
incompletely cured sugar loaf, even if he had several.

Stefan li Rous


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