Sugar Cubes

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Sugar Cubes are made by pressing granulated sugar, mixed with a bit of sugar liquid to help glue them all together, into cube shapes.

Machines form them into cubes, air-dry them, then package them.


Equivalents
1 cube = 1/2 teaspoon of sugar

Literature & Lore
"Sugar tablets and cubes will be available and in volume soon for civilian tables. Enormous quantities of tablets have been going to the Russian foot soldiers through lend-lease and to the American GI's. Purchases have been cut almost in half with the war's ending and sugar cubes are returning; first allotments are scheduled for hotels and restaurants."

-- Paddleford, Clementine (1898 - 1967). Food Flashes Column. Gourmet Magazine. October 1945.

Language Notes
A Sugar Cube is often referred to as a "lump" of sugar.

Also called:
Sucre en morceaux (French); Würfelzucker (German); Azúcar en terrones, Cubitos de azúcar (Spanish) Top...