On Food and Cooking

Slices  of  Ham

Make     some    sugar   cooked  to  the     feather,

put it  in  three   containers; in  one put some

lemon    juice,  in  another     some    roses   of

Provence,   and in  the other   some    powdered

cochenille,  or  pomegranate     juice   or

powdered     barberry.   Make    a   layer   of  the

white    on  some    paper,  two     layers  of  red,

continue    until   the sugar   has the thickness

of  a   ham,    and cut it  by  the slice   in  the form

of  a   slice   of  ham.

—   Le  Confiturier françois

The Nature of Sugars

Ordinary sugar is one member of a group of
many chemicals, all of which are given the
general name sugars. All sugars are made
from just three kinds of atoms, carbon,
hydrogen, and oxygen, with the carbon atoms
providing a kind of backbone to which the