Chapter 30: Freedom in the Caribbean

Activities for this chapter:

• chronology of slave rebellions: http://slaverebellion.org/index.php?page=chronology

• history of sugar:

• current sugar production using traditional methods in Pakistan:

• how salt and sugar preserve food: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-salt-and-sugar-pre/, http://www.acsedu.co.uk/Info/Alternative-Living/Self-Sufficiency/Sugar-in-Food-Preserving.aspx

• how to make crystalized ginger: http://www.daringgourmet.com/how-to-make-crystallized-ginger/

• how to make candied pineapple: http://www.food.com/recipe/candied-pineapple-chunks-107034, https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-to-crystallize-pineapple/

• how to make candied fruit/orange peel: http://www.canadianliving.com/food/cooking-school/article/how-to-make-candied-fruit, http://dish.allrecipes.com/how-to-candy-fruits/

• what is brown sugar: http://leitesculinaria.com/10548/writings-food-science-brown-sugar.html

• how to make maple sugar and maple candy: http://leitesculinaria.com/102175/recipes-how-to-make-maple-sugar.html, http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/148932/maple-sugaring-making-granulated-maple-sugar, http://allrecipes.com/recipe/142723/pure-maple-candy/

• freeze concentration method for making maple syrup: http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/how-to-make-maple-syrup-at-home-zmaz74zhol

• how to make sugar from sugar cane and sugar beets: https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-to-make-sugar-from-beets/, http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2012/12/how-to-make-your-own-sugar.html, http://www.survivopedia.com/how-to-make-sugar-at-home/, http://en.howtopedia.org/wiki/How_to_Make_Sugar_from_Sugar_Cane, http://www.sucrose.com/learn.html

• what is treacle, how to make treacle tart--Harry Potter's favorite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treacle, http://allrecipes.com/recipe/219141/treacle-tart/, http://www.instructables.com/id/Harry-Potters-Favorite-Treacle-Tart/

• what is the difference between corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup: http://sweets.seriouseats.com/2010/06/what-is-the-difference-between-corn-syrup-and-hfcs-high-fructose-corn-syrup.html

What we did:

We made crystallized ginger and orange peel dipped in dark chocolate:

For show-and-tell, a treacle tart and golden syrup:

And Ukrainian egg decoration:

And a carved stick: