PALM-SUGAR

or Jaggery, 2 product akin to our maple-sugar, made from the say of various tropical palms—especially the wild or cultivated jaggery-palm, or ‘twild date’’ (Phenix sylvestris), the coconut, the gomuti (Arenga sac char if era), and the palmyra (Bora us flabellifer)—aund largely consumed by native populations in India, the Nile Valley, and elsewhere. The genera! method of sap collection is to make a triangular slit in the trunk below the crown, the sap then flowing through a piece of bamboo into an earthenware pot, to be later boiled down and dried in thin sheets in the sun.