Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 340
. 173 Sugar exists in fruits, roots, and in the stalks of plants,in the juice of the cane, maple, and beet-root particularly.The canes are crushed, the juice is clarified with lime toprevent fermentation, and the liquid is evaporated. It isthen granulated and cleared from the molasses. Sugar,when… … Refining vacuum pan. sugar is mixed into a paste with water, and allowed todrain. The sugar thus becomes white. It is then dis-solved in water, with animal charcoal and bullocks blood.The liquid is boiled, and put into a dark cistern with holesat the bottom, and cotton fibres being fastened in the…
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