beet sugar?

[Jane Weeks]

Hello everybody:
I've lurked here off and on for a short while (too busy getting the garden
in :-) If anybody knows this, it would be this group!

I'm wondering if it's possible to make beet sugar at home. Does anybody
know? I've done a web search but found nothing related to DIY. I actually
hate the taste of beets, but I love the idea of making my own organic and
additive-free sugar.

Thanks,
Jane

[Linda]

Hi Jane,

I have to tell you that here, near Maffra in Victoria, Australia, we
have a sugar beet museum, from the time sugarbeet ( a very specific
type of beet) were grown here commercially. There are about 12 sample
jars from the various processes, which involve a lot of chemicals and
condensors etc.

I have grown sugarbeet, and allw e ended up doing with it was grating
the beets and treating it like carrot, to make a sugarbeet cake
instead of carrot cake. I preferred the carrot version. :)

Linda

[Shawn Turner]

Jane Weeks wrote in message ...

I have a vague memory about this.
_You_ can't get white sugar from sugar beets (the only type of beet that
has enough sugar in it to bother with) but you can get the beet equivalent
of, of, uhm, molasses? Brown sugar?
Grate or grind up, boil with enough water to pick up the sugar, strain,
boil down.
I do not know why I remember it that way, and so I suppose that
just juicing the beets leaves to much sugar in the pulp.

Shawn Turner
Spamblock: Addie is not a barnyard

[Ellen Wickberg]

I don't know about home produced, but a good portion of commercial white
sugar is beet sugar.
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[my....@sympatico.ca]

Apparently not here ...it is cane sugar, less sweet btw...and imported to Ontario from the
carribean....import/export related stuff, not to say we cant get beet sugar from our near by
province Manitoba ...I like beet better :-)

[Ellen Wickberg]

The Oxford Book of Food says that white, granulated beet and cane sugar are
chemically indistinguishable, although some marmalade makers disagree. Beet
sugar does not produce a usable molasses and therefore there is no brown
beet sugar ( unless you mixed white with cane molasses, I guess. Beets have
unpleasant compounds in the " molasses like " parts and it is ( or they are)
discarded. One sucrose ought to taste as sweet as another, unless perhaps
it is a different sized granule. Ellen
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