[Sca-cooks] CAne vs Beet sugar

[Stefan li Rous]

Kristianne asked:
> Mairi, I have cone sugar that is brownish and I scrape off the cone.  I
> don't have any idea what "kind" of sugar it is.  Apparently it's used in
> Mexican cooking, the sign is in Spanish.  How would you test for what type
> of sugar it is?

I believe these sugar cones are made with cane sugar. Mine don't say
what kind of sugar they are made of, just "sugar". Mexico produces a
fair amount of sugar cane. I don't think they are a big area for
sugar beets.

In previous discussions, I believe there were comments that those
sugar cones are probably the closest, commercially available
equivalent to medieval sugar cones that you will find available now.
There has also been some discussion of the tools used to scrape the
sugar from these cones.
sugar-msg        (107K)  6/13/01    Sugar and other medieval sweeteners.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/sugar-msg.html
sugar-sources-msg (16K)  6/13/01    Modern sugar sources. Sugar types.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/sugar-sources-msg.html
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