[Sca-cooks] online glossary

[Decker, Terry D.]

Barbary sugar is sugar grown in the Barbary States of Northwest Africa,
principally Morocco.  Lord Burleigh, Secretary of State for Elizabeth I,
complained of the quality of Barbary sugar to the Grocer's Company.
Indications are that it was a sugar of secondary quality, below Maderia
sugar but better than brown sugar.

Importation of Barbary and Egyptian sugar into England began after Henry
VIII's break with the Catholic Church in 1534.  In 1551, under Edward VI,
the Barbary Company was formed to trade with the Barbary Coast and the
company was very active through Elizabeth's reign.  The company achieved a
monopoly about 1585, but lost it when Ahmad al-Mansur opened diplomatic
relations between Morocco and Spain near the end of the 16th Century.

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