The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge.

  • Ridge, J. J. (John James), 1847-1908
Date:
1879
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Credit: The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER IV. On Sugar, Malt, Yeast, and Beer. Sugar is found in many trees, plants, and vegetables. There are several kinds. The sugar which we use every day, both “ moist ” and “ white,” is called cane-sugar [sucrose*], because it is found in the sugar-cane. But a great deal of it comes from beet-root, and the same kind of sugar is also found in the sap of the maple and in Chinese sugar-grass. The next most important kind of sugar is called grape-sugar [glucose*]. It is found in grapes and in other sweet fruits. There are three varieties of it. One kind [dextrose*] is that in sweet fruits; another [Irevulose*] is in acid fruits, and this will not form crystals,* as the first kind does;