On Food and Cooking

such liqueurs as Benedictine, Drambuie, and Irish Mist. Although honey wine, or mead, has all but disa ...

crusts of baked goods, in marinades and glazes, and other preparations. Honey and Health; Infant Botulism Though ...

When bees make honey, they perform two basic tasks: they remove a very dilute solution of sugar fro ...

descendants of that root, melit-, include molasses, marmalade, mellifluous, and mousse (via the Latin mu ...

Maple sugar was an important part of the native Americans’ diet, worked into bear fat, or mixed with ...

sugaring, the hard or rock maple, Acer saccharum, produces sap of greater quality and in greater ...

of storage in the trunk and into the outer, actively growing zone, the cambium. Maple Sugaring Without Metal ...

out of the vessels. I asked them if they were not throwing away the sugar? they said no; it was water ...

syrup. The sap contains around 3% sucrose at the beginning of the season, half that at the end; so late-seas ...

and various products of sugar caramelization and browning reactions between the sugars and amino acids. ...

Left to itself, the syrup will form coarse crystals thinly coated with the remainder of the ...

make 1 of syrup, both because there’s less sugar to begin with, and because a mixture of glucose an ...

trunk, and then is boiled down either to a syrup called palm honey, or to a crystallized mass, whic ...

honey and maple and palm sugars, and for one basic reason. Bees and tree tappers begin with an isolated pla ...

boiling it down into a thick syrup to concentrate and crystallize the sucrose draining the impurity-laden syrup ...

various dissolved impurities. The clay cones were left to stand inverted for a few days, du ...

countries that are the major consumers. Sugar beets, on the other hand, are a temperate crop, grown mainly ...

evaporation stage to heat the next. The initial clarification of cane and beet juice is now accomplished witho ...

From Sugarloaf to Sugar Cube Until the late 19th century, sugar was sold in the conical masses f ...

Impurities in White Sugar It turns out that the tiny fraction of impurities in table sugar can make a n ...