This dense-textured unrefined cane sugar from Japan will really perk up a tomato crumble or creme brulée with its roasted liquoricy notes.
Amami Oshima Island is a wild and preserved island in the Nansei archipelago, stretching from Kyushu to Taiwan. There, the sacred nature still nourishes many legends and animistic beliefs. The virgin forest houses altars where a revered stone, playing the role of the spirit of the place, stands.
This prodigious island enjoys an exceptional climate that allows four sugar cane harvests a year. The steep and stony fields require difficult manual harvesting. Two hundred years ago, the end of the harvest was celebrated with a tribal trance.
Black sugar is 100% natural, creamy, fragrant, and healthy.
A surprising flavor, a unique production.
Black sugar is made from fresh sugar cane, which is washed and rinsed before processing. Then, it is cold-pressed. The juice from this first pressing is reduced over a wood fire, without adding water, white sugar, or syrup, then left to decant for five days. The resulting syrup is crystallized and can be presented in pieces or granules.
A pure delight, authentic and delicate, that can be enjoyed at any time, like a candy. Its chocolate and licorice taste is totally irresistible when the sugar is crushed on fruits and in pastries. This black sugar from Japan leaves no one indifferent.
Tradition
In the past, the dead were laid in the deep forest of Amami Oshima without burial or cremation. It is said that thus the soul scattered to the four winds never dies.
Black Sugar French Toast
A snack with the sweetness of memories:
- Soak slices of hard bread in milk, then in two beaten eggs
- Brown in a pan with salted butter
- Sprinkle with coarsely crushed black sugar
