[Sca-cooks] black sugar
Jim and Andi
icbhod at home.com
Mon Jan 28 23:38:41 PST 2002
Nope, it says in _Food and Drinks in Mughal India_ "The jagre was available
in such abundance that it was given even to horses" pg 40, under "Sugar" and
the reference is from Manrique, 1629.
Madhavi
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Madhavi asked:
> I'm not sure they used unrefined sugar in Persia... if they did, I've
never
> seen any reference to it. They didn't use it in North India, and it wasn't
> traded as far as I know. Refined white sugar was traded extensively with
> Persia, though. Although I don't know how white it actually was, it's
always
> called white sugar in my books. In India, only poor people used unrefined
> jaggery or unrefined cane sugar, or they fed it to horses... maybe it was
> closer to that stuff you can buy called...ummm... it starts with a "t"...
I
> can't remember the name but it's light brown but it's crystals like white
> sugar... Turbinado!!!
>
> Comments, opnions, anyone..? This is guesswork on my part.
Yes, Turbinado is one of the various modern sugars that we've
discussed here as a possible equivalent to some period sugars.
This file I has more info, I think:
sugar-sources-msg (16K) 6/13/01 Modern sugar sources. Sugar types.
Although I may have left those comments in the sugar-msg file.
They fed the unrefined suga to horses? Or the sugar cane? Or really
just what remained after crushing the sugar cane?
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