SC - Sugar Questions

[Decker, Terry D.]

I've found piloncillo at the local Homeland (replacement for Safeway in
Norman, OK) in, of all places, the vegetable cooler.  These were truncated
cones about the sizes of one of the large conical spools of thread used on a
serger.  They were plastic wrapped.

Bear 

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> 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!
> 
> HTH,
> 
> 
> Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu
> renfrow at skylands.net
> Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of 15th
> Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
> Recipes"
> http://www.alcasoft.com/renfrow/
> 
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