The word “caramel” comes from the Latin “cannamella” — “sugar cane”. The cane was adapted as a delicacy by the ancient Indian Dalits: they fried sugar cane stalks on the fire and thus got the first caramel.
But not only cane was a source of sugar: in ancient times, barley sugar was made from barley groats. More than three thousand years ago, the ancient Greeks and Romans dissolved sugar in water and boiled it, getting a sticky, viscous mass, and in China they cooked caramel in the form of sticks and rolled sweets in toasted sesame seeds.
Caramel has been used at various times not only as food, but also for cosmetic procedures, sophisticated torture, gluing, and even for processing spearheads. Caramel has a variety of aromatic shades, from the bitter smoky smell of the caramel crust of creme brulee to the delicate creamy vanilla smell of toffee.


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