Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… Indias [Indies]', © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D12417, 1791. Résumé In the eighteenth century, sugar, once a luxury item, became more affordable and was used as a sweetener for tea and baked goods at a time when the tea-table was … Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Consumption Domesticity Femininity Slave trade Tea Tea-table Sugar, which had been a luxury good up to the mid-seventeenth century, became more affordable and more common in the eighteenth century. It was … Poem upon Tea ( 1712 ).* In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology A Poem upon Tea (1712) … In the eighteenth century, sugar, once a luxury item, became more affordable and was used as a sweetener for tea and baked goods at a time when the tea-table was …
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