loaf sugar

British  

noun

1. a large conical mass of hard refined sugar; sugar loaf

2. small cube-shaped lumps of this, the form in which it was often sold

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Example Sentences

To start with I laid in a pretty good supply of commissaries, among them ten pounds of cut loaf sugar.

From Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago by McKay, Robert Henderson

Serve with cut loaf sugar, and slices of lemon.

From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Reed, Myrtle

To the latter days of the eighteenth century belong an endless yet interesting variety of patterns of porringers, salvers, sugar bowls, perforated baskets for loaf sugar, tea and coffee pots, and innumerable table utensils.

From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Northend, Mary H.

In another pot boil two quarts of green peas, with a large bunch of mint, a little salt, and three or four lumps of loaf sugar.

From Domestic French Cookery, 4th ed. by Baru?, Sulpice

It was a stick six or eight inches long, with a knob at one end, or flattened out at the end so it would readily crush the loaf sugar used in the drink.

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse