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Originally Posted by Unregistered
By "raw sugar", do you mean jaggury? That is strong stuff!
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I'm not sure... it's brown. I will look at the package next time i'm at the market. I live in Jamaica and it's a local sugar. There is a lot of sugar cane plantations here. All I know is it is brown but it's not like the brown sugar I had in the states. It's course with larger granules. It has a strong smell. My firance likes to eat it straight sometimes.... also people like to eat sugar cane which they sell on the street or you just go cut one.
I looked of the definition of jaggery and it seems like that is what I have been using.
Definition: [JAG-uh-ree] This dark, coarse, unrefined sugar (sometimes referred to as palm sugar) can be made either from the sap of various palm trees or from sugar-cane juice. It is primarily used in India, where many categorize sugar made from sugar cane as jaggery and that processed from palm trees as gur. It comes in several forms, the two most popular being a soft, honeybutter texture and a solid cakelike form. The former is used to spread on breads and confections, while the solid version serves to make candies, and when crushed, to sprinkle on cereal, and so on. Jaggery has a sweet, winey fragrance and flavor that lends distinction to whatever food it embellishes. It can be purchased in East Indian markets. See also sugar.
Here's another reference
http://www.healthandyoga.com/html/product/jaggery.html
it does look like the sugar in this picture
http://www.sugarindia.com/jaggeryreceipes.htm
What do you mean by "strong stuff"... is that good or bad?