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prettygoodwordTheme week! -- sugar terms.
muscovado (muhs-kuh-VAY-doh, muhs-kuh-VAH-doh) - n., raw sugar made by evaporating sugar cane juice and then draining off the molasses.
Essentially, partially refined sugar -- darker and more heavily flavored than conventional brown sugar, and easier to make. Shortened from either Spanish azúcar mascabado or Portuguese açúcar mascavado (the former coming from the latter), both meaning separated sugar, the last part from mascavar, to separate, from Latin roots minus, smaller/less + Latin caput, head -- so literally, remove the head from.
---L.
muscovado (muhs-kuh-VAY-doh, muhs-kuh-VAH-doh) - n., raw sugar made by evaporating sugar cane juice and then draining off the molasses.
Essentially, partially refined sugar -- darker and more heavily flavored than conventional brown sugar, and easier to make. Shortened from either Spanish azúcar mascabado or Portuguese açúcar mascavado (the former coming from the latter), both meaning separated sugar, the last part from mascavar, to separate, from Latin roots minus, smaller/less + Latin caput, head -- so literally, remove the head from.
---L.
