SC - Sugar Questions

[Stefan li Rous]

Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu said:

>I've taken blake sugre to mean an unrefined sugar, similar to Mexican pilon
>or piloncillo or panela (which are produced by boiling down sugar cane
>juice in an iron kettle).  As stated already, today's brown sugar is
>processed white sugar with molasses added.  Given a choice, I'd substitute
>dark brown sugar for blake sugre for sanitary reasons -- whenever I've
>managed to find panela it's been displayed unwrapped & was swarming with
>flies.  Yum!

Thank you for this info. I’ve been wondering how close the small cones
of sugar found in my local (Austin, TX) HEB grocery store might resemble
medieval sugar cones. And they are labeled with one of the names you give
above.

But the cones in HEB are wrapped in plastic.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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