"Pete C." wrote:
>
> Mark Thorson wrote:
> >
> > Christopher Helms wrote:
> > >
> > > Yeah, of course. It tastes just like brown sugar because that's all
> > > brown sugar is, white sugar with a little molasses added to it.
> > > There's nothing mysterious about it.
> >
> > That's only true of beet sugar. Brown sugar
> > from sugar cane is not made into white sugar
> > before becoming brown sugar.
>
> Your reference only relates to beet sugar production. Brown sugar from
> cane production is made by recombining the molasses with the refined
> sugar in controlled amounts. Only perhaps the smallest and most backward
> producers might try to stop the centrifuge at the correct level of
> remaining molasses, any large producer knows that is inconsistent and
> impractical.

My reference referred specifically to how brown sugar
is made in a "cane-sugar refinery". Do you have a
reference which contradicts this, or are you just
blowing smoke?