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Language: Portuguese

Description: Dried sugar cane syrup or unrefined sugar, light tan to dark brown in colour. It comes in a hard brick or truncated cone which is scraped or grated to provide a sweetener for many recipes.



| A hardened cone of unrefined sugar, grated into dishes to sweeten them, in the Mercado Juarez in Oaxaca |
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Latin: Saccharum spp.
Ethnicity: Brazilian
Most frequent country: Brazil

See places: Brazilian food and cuisine |