Demerara (sugar)

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Demerara is used as the generic name of a type of specialty raw cane sugar often used in home baking and in sweetening coffee and tea. Demerara, sometimes spelled demerera, is normally brown in color—the natural color of cane sugar. It takes its name from the Demerara colony in Guyana, which was the original source of this type of sugar, but is produced today mainly in Mauritius.

[edit] See also

• Rapadura
• Sucanat
• Piloncillo
• Panela
• Jaggery
• Turbinado sugar
• Muscovado