Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Unrefined sugar made from the sap of palm trees or sugar cane.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coarse brown sugar obtained in India by evaporation of the fresh juice of various kinds of palm, as the jaggery-palm, the wild date-tree, the palmyra, and the cocoa. It is usually made in the form of small round cakes. Also called
goor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically those of the palmyra (
Borassus flabelliformis ) and jaggery palm (Caryota urens ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
traditional unrefined sugar used throughout South and South-EastAsia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It does not matter if the jaggery is a large chunk, it will dissolve on boiling.
Archive 2006-03-01 Nupur 2006
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Stir in the coconut milk, jaggery and salt and heat gently until barely simmering (so that the jaggery is dissolved).
Archive 2007-06-01 Nupur 2007
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Add in jaggery, salt, turmeric and red chili powder.
Archive 2007-06-01 Anjali 2007
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Unlike the fake supermarket brown sugar, jaggery is described by McGee as a whole sugar, crystalline sugar still enveloped in the cooked cane syrup that it emerged from.
Archive 2007-12-01 Nupur 2007
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Add in jaggery, salt, turmeric and red chili powder.
Kejyarcha Kairi Lonche Anjali 2007
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After the jaggery is dissolved add the marbles you made in stage 1 to the boiling liquid.
Archive 2006-10-01 Anjali 2006
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After the jaggery is dissolved add the marbles you made in stage 1 to the boiling liquid.
Moongori Anjali 2006
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The process of making jaggery is fascinating and people host parties to watch and enjoy the process.
Archive 2005-04-01 Nupur 2005
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Sreelu, the jaggery is a typical Maharashtrian addition.
Shevgyachya Shenganchi Amti (Drumstick Daal) TheCooker 2007
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It's tricky to generalize, but Gujarati food often carries a spice-balancing sweetness, from the unrefined sugar called jaggery, and is frequently meat-free.
chained_bear commented on the word jaggery
I am disappointed it doesn't appear to have anything to do with jiggery-pokery. You'd think it would. Well, all right, I'd think it would...
August 5, 2008