On Food and Cooking

major force and helped ease its introduction into the southern American colonies and the cotton plantations ...

The Development of Beet Sugar The severest blow to West Indian sugar was the development of an alternati ...

A treaty resuming trade between France and England was signed in 1814, making West Indian sugar available ...

syrup with the finger and putting it on the thumb, and opening the fingers, it forms a small thread.... Cooked ...

At present, beet sugar accounts for about 30% of the sucrose produced in the world. Russia, Germany, and ...

without having adverse effects on body weight and the regulation of blood sugar (p. 659). Recipes for Caramel, Pul ...

Slices of Ham Make some sugar cooked to the feather, put it in three containers; in one put some lemon ...

other atoms are attached. Some sugars are simple molecules, while others are made from two or more simple ...

construct from it a variety of interesting textures. One chemical characteristic of sugars is especially importa ...

qualities. Glucose Glucose, also called dextrose, is a simple sugar, and the most common sugar from ...

Here are examples of sweets that are characteristic of some nations and regions. India Reduced-milk swee ...

but the atoms are arranged in a different structure. Like glucose, fructose is found in fruits and honey, ...

corner ring, predominates in cold, somewhat acid solutions; in warm or hot conditions, this shape shifts to ...

alone in having a pleasant taste even at the very high concentrations found in candies and preserves; ...

component won’t fully crystallize in the presence of glucose and sucrose. Sucrose inversion and invert sugars ...

pure form. Because it’s much less sweet than table sugar, manufacturers use it much as they do the su ...

fructose registers quickly and strongly, but it also fades quickly. And corn syrup is slow to taste sw ...

Maltose 45 Lactose 40 Corn syrupGlucose, maltose30–50 High-fructose corn syrup Fructose, maltose 80– 90 Invert sugar syr ...

crystals. This tendency to form crystals is the means by which we obtain pure sugar from plant jui ...

Though caramel is most often made with table sugar, its sucrose molecules actually break apart into their ...