Simmonds's colonial magazine and foreign miscellany / edited by P.L. Simmonds

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London : Simmonds and Ward, [1844]-1849
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Vol. 12 No. 47 (November 1847)
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SIMMONDS’S  

COLONIAL MAGAZINE.  

THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR CHEMICALLY CON-  

SIDERED  

[We have been requested by the friends of the author, to republish, for  

the information of sugar planters in the East, the following remarks on  

the process of sugar manufacture, which have already appeared in the  

Jamaica Dispatch, and we have much pleasure in complying with the  

request, not only because the subject is an important and interesting  

one, but because the writer, in the course of his observations, proceeds  

to show how objectionable the present system is, and how many of its  

ill effects may be avoided or modified. â€” Ed.]  

Cane-juice contains many ingredients besides sugar, the principal of  

which are albumen, gluten, gum, starch, resin, wax, colouring matter,  

and certain salts, all of which, either collectively or individually, have  

the power of preventing granulation, as may be proved by their addition  

to syrup of pure sugar, which will then defy all attempts to make it  

crystallise. If, therefore, we want to make good sugar, we must en-  

deavour to free our cane-juice as much as possible from those substances.  

Now, cane-juice is no more the sap of the cane, than apple-juice is  

that of the apple-tree; it is the natural product of the cane, and, in all  

probability, would contain but small proportion of these foreign mat-  

ters if it could be expressed without being accompanied by the sap, they  

being the natural constituents of the last-named fluid. patent has,  

we believe, been lately taken out for separating the cane-juice without  

the sap. However, in the absence of such an improvement, much may  

be done by care and attention at the mill; the green bands and trash  

which usually accompany the canes from the field, should, therefore,  

be carefully removed before they are passed through, as they contain no  

saccharine matter, abound in the deleterious substances already mentioned,  

and communicate bad colour to the juice; therefore, the ripe cane only  

should pass through the mill. There are but few planters who have not  

had to contend with sour juice, and they attribute the difficulty they ex-  

perience in making sugar therefrom, to the presence of acetic acid, or  

vinegar; but this is quite an erroneous idea, as the acetic acid is very  

volatile, and evaporates quickly on the application of heat, which may  

VOL. XII. NO. 47. NOVEMBER, 1847.  

 

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