brown crystallized cane sugar from the Caribbean and nearby countries
a highly flavoured rum used mainly for blending purposes
After the Demerara River
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It’s made with oat milk infused with olive oil, demerara syrup and a dash of orange bitters.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
The caramel-tinged ham is then lacquered with molasses, dark like licorice and dusted with spicy English mustard powder and crunchy demerara sugar.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
Make the demerara syrup: In a small pan over medium heat, combine the demerara sugar with the water and bring to a boil, stirring until the sugar is dissolved.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2021
With a blowtorch, caramelize a piece of demerara sugar.
From Forbes ● Dec. 24, 2014
I didn't hear anybody come," remarked Tim, as he mixed cream and demerara sugar inside an artificial pool of porridge, "but it's all the same—now.
From The Extra Day by Blackwood, Algernon
The arrest followed a US extradition request received by Guyana on Thursday, according to the Demerara Waves news outlet.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025
This Italian-inspired cocktail den from the team behind the Capitol Hill dive Rose Temple cranks out amaro, spritz and funky concoctions like a chocolate-cereal-infused rye cocktail with Demerara and Angostura bitters.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
John Gladstone was a Scottish merchant who made a fortune as a Demerara sugar-planter and had hundreds of enslaved people working in plantations in the decade before emancipation.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2023
The venture will focus drilling this year on the Corentyne block, the most promising of its three blocks, including Demerara and Berbice.
From Reuters ● May 6, 2022
Gladstone’s first ships, the Whitby, carrying 249 passengers, and the Hesperus, car-rying 244, sailed for Demerara in 1838.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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