“Finally the last grapes were gathered, the last baskets packed and crated, and along the road the laden waggons creaked for the last time. Then the young man gave a great feast for the workers, lasting from noon until midnight, with pitchers of cider, great loaves of freshly baked bread and cake, roasted fowls, hot baked potatoes, and pink hams, crusted with crumbs and cloves and sugar, that fell into flakes at the touch of the knife.”
A cook of roughly the same moment, setting down the same dish.
outside of dried fruits, such as raisins, dates, etc., and is only two-thirds as sweet as cane sugar. As a manufactured product it is obtained from the starch of corn. =Milk sugar= is obtained from the milk of mammalia, but unlike cane sugar does not ferment. =Fruit sugar= is obtained from sweet fruits, and is sold as _diabetin_, is sweeter than cane sugar, and is principally used by diabetic patients.
Sources: The passage is from Myrtle Reed, Master of the Vineyard, free to read in full at Project Gutenberg. The recipe is from Farmer, The Boston cooking-school cook book of 1896, also free in full. Both are in the public domain in the United States. The binding above is ours — slate cloth, grapes stamp.