Sugar cubes quickly became popular with the British. The British sugar giant Tate & Lyle purchased this technology and started mass marketing of sugar cubes to British consumers. In Germany and Belgium techniques were developed to make blocks of sugar were made in centrifuges or cylindrical turbines, that were then sawn into precisely shaped cubes. Soon other techniques were developed which made cubes in even more efficient ways. This started in the Middle East, and spread to Russia and Europe and, as The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets notes “a precisely cut sugar cube served this purpose even better than an irregular lump.” One reason might have been the custom of drinking tea by sucking it through a lump of sugar. He patented this in 1843 and the cubes became popular in parts of Europe. Rad developed a technique for grating and moistening sugar so it could be compacted hard in ice-cube like trays and dried till solid. Rad’s wife was doing this one day when she cut herself, so she asked her husband if he could make sugar available in a more convenient way. The sugar was produced in large solid blocks that had to be grated or cut. They were created just over 175 years back by Jakob Christoph Rad, the Swiss born manager of a sugar beet refinery in Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic. Sugar cubes were meant for cooler European climates. And a hot, moist tropical climate wasn’t ideal anyway for cubes that would attract moisture and insects. Even outside times of short supply their thrifty owners wouldn’t leave sugar out on the table for customers to consume freely. Irani restaurants, the most common cafes of that time, usually served tea and coffee with sugar added. Many Indians still took sweetness from softer and crumblier lumps of jaggery. Sugar cubes didn’t have many other takers. Perhaps a few elite clubs had them and there must have still been a few high society ladies at that time who kept up the British custom of afternoon tea where they would pass along cups with the question: “one lump or two?” People would have encountered them in hotels like the Taj where a tea tray would come with a separate jug of milk and bowl of sugar cubes with small tongs. Sugar cubes hardly seemed to pose such a drain on sugar supplies in Maharashtra. But that ban did at least have some logic, given the scale of milk use for sweets in Bengal. Two years earlier the West Bengal state government had banned milk sweets, an unprecedented step in that sandesh loving state.
Presumably this was linked to the many food shortages of the 1960s. It added that Maharashtra Sugar Mills Ltd., the only manufacturers of sugar cubes in the State, had been asked to cease sales.
“The sale of sugar cubes in the open market has been banned,” reported the Times of India (ToI). But even by such stifling standards the Maharashtra government’s announcement of 13th July 1967 seemed oddly specific. There are plenty of weekly and daily specials, too, like the recent tacos or poutine made using the hand-cut fries that are regularly on the menu.Indian governments love to ban almost anything.
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