SC - sugar

[Mark.S Harris]

A little over a week ago, Bear said:

I can't give you a value, but sugar was a widely grown and used product in
the Islamic lands.  It originates in India.  It was transplanted to the
Euphrates before the rise of Islam and it is probably there that it was
first refined.  These areas became part of al-Islam before 700 CE.

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Why would someone go to the trouble to transplating it a great distance
unless it was already being refined? Or is there evidence of people
squeezing the juice onto/into food directly from the plant? I seem to
remember chewing on raw sugar cane years and years ago and it being
sweet, though. I don’t even know if it is still available that way. I
don’t remember seeing the raw cane in years.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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