SC - Date sugar

[Wajdi]

Greetings, 

I was asked to post the following message here, and let ya'll
respond.  This sounds kind of interesting.

wajdi



- -----Original Message-----
From: La Flautista [mailto:flautista at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 8:36 PM
To: Medieval_Spain at egroups.com
Subject: [Medieval_Spain] Sugar


I bought something unusual on Sunday- date sugar.  The date sugar
looks a
lot like finely granulated dark brown sugar and I bought some
thinking it
would be tasty in
tea.  Then I got to thinking, I wonder if there are any medieval
Hispano-Arab recipes that call for date sugar?  Or is date sugar
the kind
of sugar they were using and not cane sugar?   Does anyone know
anything
about this?

Regards,
Aisha de Qabra