(uncountable) Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
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To a pound of gooseberries take a pound and a half of double-refined sugar. Clarify the sugar with water, a pint to a pound of sugar, and when the syrup is cold, put the gooseberries single in your preserving pan, put the syrup to them, and set them on a gentle fire.
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1792, Francis Collingwood, The universal cook: and city and country housekeeperhttps://books.google.com/books?id=xJMEAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22sugar%22&pg=PA279#v=onepage&q=%22sugar%22&f=false:
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There appears to be no prospect of success in attempting to combat the crisis by international arrangement, and any improvement in sugar prices can only be looked for from a diminution of the production, either as a consequence of deficient crops, or of a reduction in manufacture.
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1895 March 31, “The Present Crisis”, in The Sugar Canehttps://books.google.com/books?id=8UpNAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22sugar%20prices%22&pg=PA171#v=onepage&q=%22sugar%20prices%22&f=false, volume 27, number 309, page 171:
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Even in extreme cases such as chemical pollution in the Florida Everglades from heavily subsidized sugar farming, strong regulations are routinely blocked by industry.
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2013, Robert Paarlberg, Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know?https://books.google.com/books?id=AcQ7AAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT109&dq=%22sugar%20farming%22&pg=PT109#v=onepage&q=%22sugar%20farming%22&f=false: