SC - sugar

[Philip & Susan Troy]

"Brian L. Rygg or Laura Barbee-Rygg" wrote:
> 
> You can still get loaf/cone sugar (has to be grated) wrapped in blue paper
> in America.  The Colonial re-creationists use it in camp.  Flour sugar --
> powdered sugar?  Pot sugar? that one stumps me.
> Raoghnailt

I haven't seen loaf sugar in blue paper, but I have seen pig ingots of
more or less unrefined brown sugar, simply the juice of sugar cane
boiled until it will soldify. I think it's sold under such names as
"panela dolce" or "panela de sucra" by companies like Goya. These can be
grated or smashed up with a hammer, then ground in a mortar, or simply
added in chunks to hot liquids such as coffee to dissolve.
  
Now, pot sugar is something I've seen references to in at least one or
two 14th or 15th century English recipes, something to the effect that
pot sugar requires a higher decoction than other sugars (this in an
anise in confit recipe), so perhaps it is moister than other sugars.

Adamantius 
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Phil & Susan Troy

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