muscovado

American  

[muhs-kuh-vey-doh, -vah-] / ˌmʌs kəˈveɪ doʊ, -ˈvɑ- /

noun

1. raw or unrefined sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugarcane by evaporating and draining off the molasses.

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muscovado British  

/ ˌmʌskəˈvɑːdəʊ /

noun

1. raw sugar obtained from the juice of sugar cane by evaporating the molasses

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Etymology

Origin of muscovado

First recorded in 1635–45; from Spanish (azúcar) mascabado or directly from Portuguese (açúcar) mascavado, past participle of mascavar “to separate raw sugar,” earlier meoscabar, reduced form of menoscabar “to belittle, detract from,” cognate with Spanish menoscabar “to diminish, reduce,” from unattested Vulgar Latin minuscapāre, equivalent to Latin minus “smaller, less” ( see minus) + unattested Vulgar Latin -capāre, derivative of unattested capum, for Latin caput “head”; cf. achieve, mischief

Example Sentences

For example, he wants to make a granita with barako coffee, which is grown there, and pair it with muscovado jelly and leche flan ice cream.

From Washington Times • May 31, 2023

The dessert, as best as Livingston remembers it, featured a creamy koji mousse with a paste of green herbs and a spread that combined muscovado sugar with foraged Danish wood ants.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023

To mix up your breakfast or afternoon tea routine, "muscovado is also great in a darker, more brooding style of marmalade," shifting the flavor profile from bright and citrusy to more warm and wintery version.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2022

She combines bread flour with sweet rice flour, and stuffs each pancake with a filling of muscovado, peanuts, cinnamon and salt, then fries the plump rounds until they’re a brilliant golden brown.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2022

Moreover, I must look to the disposal of my last cargo of West India rum and muscovado sugar; and also the lot of choice Cheshire cheese, lest it grow mouldy.

From Old News (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel