SC - Au Gratin (a semi-retraction)

[Christine A Seelye-King]

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> On a more historical note, the process to make beet sugar was introduced
> in
> 1793 by Franz Carl Achard.  The process was improved over the next century
> and the first commercial processing plant opened in Silesia in 1802.  It
> failed, but the idea of domestic sugar production in Europe was spurred by
> the deprivations of the Napoleonic Wars.  By mid-century, beet sugar was
> being produced commercial across Europe and was being introduced into the
> US.  The commercially successful sugar beets are all hybrids developed in
> the 19th Century from the Silesian sugar beets.
> 
> Bear
> 
	Just don't get down wind of the manufacturing plant - talk about
your air pollution. Margarite