[Sca-cooks] beet sugar

[Jane Williams]

On 14 May 2002 at 0:57, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Interesting. Talking to a friend in Moscow (Posadnik), who has written
> several articles for the Florilegium, beet sugar is all he can get there.
> He says cane sugar used to be fairly available until relations with Cuba
> and the Cuban subsidies went away. Now cane sugar is rare and corn
> syrup is practically unheard of.

I've been told in the past that mainland Europe
switched to using beet sugar in the Napoleonic wars,
because their trade routes to the cheap source of
cane sugar had been cut ("Brittania rules the waves",
and so on). Britain still uses cane sugar, but
produces quite a lot of beet.

A number of useful web pages out there, but this
came up in Google first:
http://www.sucrose.com/