[Sca-cooks] Sugar WAS Spices in England
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Mon Jan 1 14:46:15 PST 2007
Sharon asked:
<<< Has anyone on the list ever made sugar from sugar cane or sugar
beets? How
did it go? >>>
I've only seen pieces of sugar cane a few times in my life. I suspect
the total length of what I've seen in the grocery store would only be
a couple of feet. So where would you find raw sugar cane today? Other
than perhaps flying to Hawaii?
I did ask this same question here in the past few months, but got no
replies.
I suspect that getting a useable amount of sugar from sugar beets
would be much more difficult at home than from starting with sugar cane.
Perhaps this file, which talks about sugar production techniques in
Cyprus in the Middle Ages might be of interest:
Cypriot-Sugr-art (54K) 8/ 5/06 “From Cane To Kitchen: An
Investigation into
Medieval Processed Sugar” by
Gavan
MacBane. Sugar processing in
Cyprus.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/Cypriot-Sugr-art.html
I do seem to remember that Gavan does describe his experiments at
recreating some of these processes at home.
Stefan
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