These early cubes were made primarily of beet sugar , and in modern times, either beet or cane sugar is considered acceptable. A combination of sugar crystals and sugar syrup are mixed together and placed in molds until dry.
They are hard enough in dry form to retain their shape, though excess handling may cause them to break or crumble at the edges. Even packaging of the cubes can cause a bit of breakage, especially to the bottom layers of cubes. There is, however, precedent set for placing cubes of sugar in cold drinks, especially alcoholic ones. Saveur for iPad included. Gift subscriptions available.
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Many Indians still took sweetness from softer and crumblier lumps of jaggery. Irani restaurants, the most common cafes of that time, usually served tea and coffee with sugar added. Sugar cubes were meant for cooler European climates. They were created just over years back by Jakob Christoph Rad, the Swiss born manager of a sugar beet refinery in Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic. The sugar was produced in large solid blocks that had to be grated or cut.
Rad developed a technique for grating and moistening sugar so it could be compacted hard in ice-cube like trays and dried till solid. He patented this in and the cubes became popular in parts of Europe. One reason might have been the custom of drinking tea by sucking it through a lump of sugar. Soon other techniques were developed which made cubes in even more efficient ways. In Germany and Belgium techniques were developed to make blocks of sugar were made in centrifuges or cylindrical turbines, that were then sawn into precisely shaped cubes.
Sugar cubes quickly became popular with the British. They were an easy way to portion sugar, and food writers were soon writing recipes that specified the number of cubes needed.
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