is gula melaca - coconut sugar?
i need coconut sugar for a recipe but can only find gula melaca
i need coconut sugar for a recipe but can only find gula melaca
Brielle Louine
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gula melaka or malacca sugar is palm sugar
Anonymous
Palm sugar was originally made from the sap of the Palmyra palm, the date palm or the sugar date palm. Now it is also made from the sap of the Arenga pinnata (sugar palm) and the nipa palm, and may therefore also be sold as "arenga sugar". Palm sugar is made by making several slits into the stem of a palm tree and collecting the sap. The sap is then boiled until it thickens.
Palm sugar should not be confused with coconut sugar, which is made from the sap of cut flower buds of the coconut palm, instead of from the sap of the tree itself.
in Indonesia: palma sugar it is called " gula kelapa, gula aren, gula merah, gula semut (Gula Jawa in the Netherlands)"