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Cane Jaggery

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Cane jaggery (gur) is boiled sugarcane juice set into a block, fudge, or coarse grain with its molasses still inside. It tastes of caramel, mineral, and sometimes smoke from the pan. Indian and South Asian sweets, dals, and chai use it as the brown sweetener, grated or melted, not as a white crystal. Colour runs from gold to near-black depending on the boil. A good block snaps and smells cleanly caramel; a sour or chemical bag was badly made or cut with starch. It is not palm jaggery—the sap plant is cane. Dissolve it fully in wet dishes or you will bite grit.