Sugar loaf (sugar)

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A sugar loaf , also known as sugar cane in Switzerland , is a cone made of sugar with a rounded tip . While this dosage form has become rare worldwide, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, due to the production methods, it was one of the main forms of sugar sold.

Manufacture and use

Manufacturing

Earlier

The juice pressed from the plants was concentrated by boiling. The hot mass was poured into a crucible to crystallize . The mass crystallized and contracted as it cooled, detached itself from the wall as a whole thanks to the rounding of the shape and could be thrown out. If the form is filled to the brim, the result is a uniform portioning. Wrapping with paper is typical: if the tip is covered with a sheet of cellophane, the quality remains visible; if a sheet of paper is then wrapped around the center from behind, the cone angle at the front results in a V-contour similar to that of a shirt collar, graphically characteristic for many representations of sugar.

today

Today granulated sugar is slightly moistened and pressed into a mold.

use

The sugar is very hard and must first be laboriously crushed for most purposes. The name is derived from the resemblance to a high, stiff hat (without a brim), as it was previously worn on festive and formal occasions. Its cone angle can be around 10 ° to 30 °. Today the Sugar Loaf only serves a decorative purpose. In particular, it is still used in the preparation of Feuerzangenbowle .

In the Maghrebian tea culture in north-west Africa, sugar loafs are an indispensable part of the preparation of green tea with peppermint . The sugar is crushed with a special, often ornately decorated sugar hammer or, more rarely, with tongs.

Borrowings

At the time when sugar loafs were still more in use, the word was transferred to a wide variety of shapes, the shape of which was reminiscent of a sugar loaf, such as mountains ( the sugar loaf in Rio ), houses ( inverted sugar loaf ) or plants ( sugar loaf spruce and sugar loaf ).

It can be found as an ornament together with a sugar beet on the villa of the sugar wholesaler Gerloff in Braunschweig.

  • Sugar loaf in sugar loaf box with chopper

  • Sugar scraper and sugar tongs

  • Burning rum on sugar loaf when preparing a fire tong punch

  • Sugar loaf as an ornament on the Gerloff Villa in Braunschweig

Web links

Commons : Sugar Loafs  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online shop. (No longer available online.) In: zucker.ch. Schweizer Zucker AG, archived from the original on August 12, 2014 ; accessed on July 31, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Sugar Loaf 250g. (No longer available online.) In: zuckermuehle.ch. Zuckermühle Rupperswil AG, archived from the original on August 8, 2014 ; accessed on July 31, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Schweizerisches Idiotikon , Volume X, Column 1771, Article Zucker-Stock ( digitalisat ), accessed on August 24, 2017.
  4. ↑ Hans Konrad Biesalski, Michael Adolph: Nutritional medicine: according to the new nutritional medicine curriculum of the German Medical Association . Thieme-Verlag, Stuttgart, New York, NY 2010, ISBN 978-3-13-100294-5 .
  5. ↑ Zucker Hut - Südzucker . Retrieved September 15, 2016.