Loaf sugar was a hard piece of sugar about the size and shape of a loaf of bread. To use it, you pounded off a piece and mashed it up to granulate it. I think it was tan rather than white. Barbara Jennings -----Original Message----- From: G. Lee Hearl [SMTP:glh@naxs.com] Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 4:03 PM To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: King's Mountain On SUGAR & CANE: Daniel Boone bought loaf sugar at a trading post in southwest Virginia. Does anybody know wht "loaf sugar" was? Maybe brown sugar? My great great grandfather had a large sugar maple grove on his farm, with large pans and boiling kettles where he made syrup and sugar..but from the reports I have read concerning the amount he made, I don't believe the pioneers could have depended on maple sugar for their needs..I believe the pioneers probably made molasses which turn into sugar after a while if they are made thick....I helped restock a cane mill a couple of years ago which looked like it was brought over on the Mayflower!! The creeks and other places with "cane" in the names were probably named for the wild cane which grew in low areas when the first Longhunters and explorers came..I don't know if it had syrup juice in it or not..Cattle and horses could eat it.. G. Lee H... ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== #4 Chain letters, gossip, non-genealogical notes, commercial ads, pleas for help, etc. are PROHIBITED on this List. Violators will be promptly locked out. -sysop