[Sca-cooks] CAne vs Beet sugar

[Barbara Nostrand]

Noble Cousins!

Greetings from Solveig!

U&I sugar used to be beet sugar while C&H sugar used to be cane sugar.

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					Solveig Throndardottir
					Amateur Scholar


>I think they must have been a significant crop here, too (NW Montana).
>At least at one point...the software company for whom I work is housed
>in a reconverted sugar beet factory.  There are a few pictures of the
>buildings and surrounding area dating back to the factory days...lots of
>railroad tracks, so perhaps the beets were just shipped here.
>Hmmm...I may have to go *shopping* this weekend, and look for both
>kinds.....
>--Maire, wanting an adventure anyway
>
>Varju at aol.com wrote:
>>
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>>  Beet sugar is available is the US as well.  At least where I'm at, in
>>  Wyoming, if the sugar is not marked specifically as cane sugar it's beet
>>  sugar.  That might just be beacause sugar beets are one of our major crops
>>  and there is a plant here.   (The plant used to be owned by Holly Sugar, but
>>  I'm not sure if they still have it or its a co-op now.)
>>
>>  Noemi
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