Brown Sugar (1665, 1670, 1674, 1675, 1681)

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"Brown Sugar"
--Mick Jagger (while "cooking")

   OED has 1704 for "brown sugar."...I have some much earlier "jaggers."
   That recent "Dutch Apple" post should read "Strew sugar."
   These are all from the full text EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS ONLINE.



Author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Title: New experiments and observations touching cold, or, An experimental history of cold begun to which are added an examen of antiperistasis and an examen of Mr. Hobs's doctrine about cold / by the Honorable Robert Boyle ... ; whereunto is annexed An account of freezing, brought in to the Royal Society by the learned Dr. C. Merret ...
Publication date: MDCLXV [1665]
Search results: 1 match in full text
An Account of Freezing made in December and January, 1662.
• ...  season) and very solid. Some that saw it judged it to be brown Su|gar Candy, the taste whereof was near, if not altogether as strong as the uncongealed liquo ...


Author: Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.
Title: The queen-like closet; or, Rich cabinet stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying & cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. By Hannah Wolley.
Publication date: 1670.
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THE Ladies New Closet. OR RATHER Rich Cabinet. > CCLXXXVIII. To make a Rock in Sweet-Meats.
• ... of fine Stones growing on a Rock; for Sand which lies sometimes among the little Stones, strew some brown Sugar; for Moss, take Herbs of a Rock Candy; then you must make the likeness of Snakes and Sna ...


Author: Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.
Title: The compleat gamester, or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice : to which is added the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.
Publication date: 1674.
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Games without the Tables. > CHAP. XXXVIII. > Of dieting and ordering a Cock for Battel.
• ... tely chase him twice or thrice in that time as aforesaid, then give him his scowring rolled well in brown Su|gar-Candy which will prevent the scowring from making the Cock sick; now may you let him fi ...


Author: Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
Title: Choice and experimented receipts in physick and chirurgery as also cordial and distilled waters and spirits, perfumes, and other curiosities / collected by ... Sir Kenelm Digby, Knight ...
Publication date: 1675.
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An Anodyne Clyster.
• ... hites of three new-laid Eggs beaten into an Oil, and about two spoonfuls of lump kitchin Sugar (not brown Sugar used in Clysters, nor Loaf-Sugar, but the best sweetning Sugar, and that is in lumps) an ...


Author: Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689.
Title: The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne through Turky, into Persia and the East-Indies, for the space of forty years giving an account of the present state of those countries, viz. of the religion, government, customs, and commerce of every country, and the figures, weight, and value of the money currant all over Asia : to which is added A new description of the Seraglio / made English by J.P. ; added likewise, A voyage into the Indies, &c. by an English traveller, never before printed ; publish'd by Dr. Daniel Cox.
Publication date: 1677.
Search results: 3 matches in full text
TRAVELS IN INDIA. > TRAVELS IN INDIA. The Second Book. Containing an Historical and Political Description of the Empire of the Great Mogul. > CHAP. IX. Some other Observations upon the Court of the Great Mogul.
• ...  such sober lives. For as well the Horse as the Infantry will live upon Meal kneaded with Water and brown Sugar; but in the evening, when they have convenience, they make Quichery, which is ...
TRAVELS IN INDIA. > TRAVELS IN INDIA. The Third Book. > CHAP. XIV. Of divers Customs of the Indian Idolaters.
• ...  three hundred Paris pints of Palma-wine, they put in fifty or sixty pound of brown Sugar unrefin'd, which looks like yellow Wax; with about twenty pound of a great thick bark of ...
TRAVELS IN INDIA. > TRAVELS IN INDIA. The Third Book. > CHAP. XV. Of the Kingdom of Boutan, whence comes the Musk, the good Rhu|barb, and some Furs.
• ... p with Cords. They never feed them but morning and evening, mixing a pound of meal, half a pound of brown Sugar, and half a pound of Butter together, with water sufficient. In the evening they must be ...


Author: Knox, Robert, 1640?-1720.
Title: An historical relation of the island Ceylon, in the East-Indies together, with an account of the detaining in captivity the author and divers other Englishmen now living there, and of the authors miraculous escape : illustrated with figures, and a map of the island / by Robert Knox.
Publication date: 1681.
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AN Historical Relation OF ZEILON, (Aliàs Ceylon,) AN Island in the EAST-INDIES. > PART I. > CHAP. III. Of their Corn, with their manner of Husbandry.
• ...  anoint them|selves; and sometimes they will parch it and eat it with Iaggory, a kind of brown Sugar. And thus much of their Corn. /  ...
AN Historical Relation OF ZEILON, (Aliàs Ceylon,) AN Island in the EAST-INDIES. > PART I. > CHAP. IV. Of their Fruits, and Trees.
• ...  some four Gallons in a day, some more and some less. The which Liquor they boyl and make a kind of brown Sugar, called Iaggory; but if they will use their skill, they can make it as white  ...

(Again, OED's first "brown sugar" is 1704.  Yet, OED has this 1681 "brown sugar" citation under "jaggery." Just miserable--ed.)