[Sca-cooks] Clotted Cream

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Micheal <dmreid at hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:

>  If sugar is only from cane or beet then what were they making candy out of 
> in different civilizations?

While there is evidence that one scientist in 1590 experimented with making beet
sugar, nothing came of his experiments.  The earliest commercial manufacturing of
sugar beets into sugar is 1800 in Germany, although it didn't get widespeard acceptance
until 1812, when France was cut off from sugar cane sugar imports...

In Europe, pre-1600, the only sugar available to them was cane sugar.  In the Middle East
and India, they also had palm sugar, called jaggery or gur.

Huette

Remember that while money talks, chocolate sings.

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