Sugar refined and molded into a loaf or conical mass.
c. 1440. Anc. Cookery, in Househ. Ord. (1790), 473. And medel therwith two pounde of lofe sugre.
1678. J. Phillip, trans. Tavernier’s Trav. India, II. 131. Loaf-Sugar is also made at Amadabat, where they are perfectly skill’d in refining it.
1732. Fielding, Mock Doctor, ix. Wks. 1882, IX. 267. These look exactly like lumps of loaf-sugar.
c. 1865. J. Wylde, in Circ. Sci., I. 356/2. In a purer state … the cane-sugar is called ‘loaf’ or ‘lump-sugar.’
