Sugarloaf
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[edit] Form of sugar
A sugarloaf was the traditional form, a tall gently-tapering cylinder with a conical top[1], in which refined sugar was exported from the Caribbean and eastern Brazil from the 17th to 19th centuries.
- "...households bought their white sugar in tall, conical loaves, from which pieces were broken off with special iron sugar-cutters. Shaped something like very large heavy pliers with sharp blades attached to the cutting sides, these cutters had to be strong and tough, because the loaves were large, about 14 inches in diameter at the base, and 3 feet high [15th century]...In those days, sugar was used with great care, and one loaf lasted a long time. The weight would probably have been about 30 lb. Later, the weight of a loaf varied from 5 lb to 35 lb, according to the moulds used by any one refinery. A common size was 14 lb, but the finest sugar from Madeira came in small loaves of only 3 or 4 lb in weight...Up till late Victorian times household sugar remained very little changed and sugar loaves were still common and continued so until well into the twentieth century..."
- "English Bread and Yeast Cookery", Elizabeth David [Penguin:Middlesex] 1977 (p. 139)
Today, such loaves are still common in some parts of Europe, especially in Germany where small loaves are a required ingredient for the holiday season drink Feuerzangenbowle.
[edit] Mountains and rock formations
The characteristic shape of a sugarloaf has led to a number of hills and mountains being named Sugarloaf, including:
- Australia
- Mount Sugarloaf, near Newcastle, New South Wales
- Sugarloaf Hill, Sydney, New South Wales
- Brazil
- Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Pão de Açúcar)
- Canada
- Mount Sugar Loaf, Quebec, Canada
- Sugarloaf Mountain, New Brunswick, Canada
- Ireland
- Great Sugar Loaf, Little Sugar Loaf and Sugar Loaf, County Wicklow, Ireland
- Sugarloaf Mountain, Ireland, County Cork, Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Sugarloaf Rock
- UK
- USA
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Florida), the highest point of peninsular Florida, USA, located in the city of Clermont
- Sugarloaf Mountain, a scenic area in Big Bay, Michigan, USA
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Oregon), USA
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Maine), USA, home of the Sugarloaf/USA ski resort
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Maryland)
- Sugar Loaf (Mackinac Island), a rock formation on Mackinac Island, Michigan, USA
- Sugar Loaf, Winona, Minnesota, USA
[edit] Other places
A number of other places are named Sugarloaf:
- UK
- Sugar Loaf railway station, a minor railway station in Wales and the 14th least used in the United Kingdom.
- USA
- Sugarloaf Key, an island in the lower Florida Keys
- Sugarloaf Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA
- TPC at Sugarloaf, a golf course in Duluth, Georgia, USA
- Sugarloaf Parkway, a busy thoroughfare in Gwinnett County, GA
- Sugarloaf, Lake Tahoe, a climbing area near Lake Tahoe in California, USA
- Sugar Loaf, New York, USA an arts and crafts town
- Sugarloaf, California, a residential community adjacent to Big Bear City, California in the Big Bear Lake resort area.
[edit] Other things
- A type of pineapple
- Sugarloaf (horse breed)[citation needed]
- The movie production company that made Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Sugarloaf (band), a 1970's rock music group best known for their hit songs "Green-Eyed Lady" (1970) and "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" (1975)
- Late style of medieval great helm, with a conical top
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