[Sca-cooks] Sugar Cane

[Volker Bach]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:05:23 -0700 (PDT), Huette von Ahrens 
<ahrenshav at yahoo.com> wrote :

> >From my sources, sugar cane is native to New
> Guinea and then spread to Asia.  The earliest
> known mention of sugar cane comes from a love 
> poem in the Indian sacred work, the Atharva-veda,
> [written some time between 1500 and 1000 BC]
> which used sugar cane as a symbol of sweetness
> and attractiveness.  In 327BC, Alexander the 
> Great sent sugar cane home from India.  In 510BC,
> in Persia, the first mention of solid sugar
> describes it as coming from the Indus Valley.
> This probably was jaggery.  

My sources say the same thing for the early period, but that's because 'my 
sources' is mostly you :-)

BTW, is there anything period you can do with jaggery? I have had a pound 
of it sitting around on my shelf forever.

Giano