Honey Tree Syrups and Sugars: Maple, Birch, Palm Table Sugar: Cane and Beet Sugars and Syrups Corn Syrups, Glucose and Fructose Syrups, Malt Syrup Sugar Candies and Confectionery Setting the Sugar Concentration: Cooking the Syrup Setting the Sugar Structure: Cooling and Crystallization Kinds of Candies Chewing Gum Candy Storage and Spoilage Chocolate The History of Chocolate Making Chocolate The Special Qualities of Chocolate The Kinds of Chocolate Chocolate and Cocoa as Ingredients Tempered Chocolate for Coating and Molding Chocolate and Health Ordinary sugar is an extraordinary food Sugar is pure sensation, crystallized pleasure All human beings share an innate liking for its sweetness, which we first experience in mother’s milk, and which is the taste of the energy that fuels all life Thanks to this deep appeal, sugar and sugar-rich foods are now among the most popular and widely consumed of all foods In centuries past, when sugar was rare and expensive, they were luxuries reserved for the wealthy and for the climax of the meal Today sugar is cheap, and manufactured sweets have become everyday, casual pleasures, affordable and entertaining morsels Some are soothing classics, cream and sugar cooked into rich brown caramels, or clear sugar tinted to look like a shard of stained glass And others are provocative novelties with glaringly unnatural colors, ... mother’s milk, and which is the taste of the energy that fuels all life Thanks to this deep appeal, sugar and sugar-rich foods are now among the most popular and widely consumed of all foods In centuries past, when sugar was... rare and expensive, they were luxuries reserved for the wealthy and for the climax of the meal Today sugar is cheap, and manufactured sweets have become everyday, casual pleasures, affordable and. .. Chocolate and Health Ordinary sugar is an extraordinary food Sugar is pure sensation, crystallized pleasure All human beings share an innate liking for its sweetness, which we first experience in mother’s