[Sca-cooks] Sugar beets

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Micheal <dmreid at hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:
>Your answer though to the point was relatively short could I get an
>expansion please or a place to look.
>
>  Da


Info below derived from:
The Oxford Companion to Food
edited by Alan Davidson
paperback edition as The Penguin Companion to Food

page 919
In about 1590, French botanist Olivier de Serres managed to extract 
some sugar syrup from sugar beets. But no one seems to have pursued 
extracting beet sugar.

Then in 1747 the German chemist Andreas Marggraf Marggraf did it 
again. Again, interest was light.

Then, in 1800 [1801 according to a different source], one of 
Marggraf's students, Karl Franz Achard, supported by Frederick the 
Great of Prussia set up a small sugar beet refinery in Selesia [in 
northeastern Germany, which was Prussia then].

When the Napoleonic Wars cut off supplies of cane sugar, beet sugar 
production began in earnest.

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