palm sugar

Also known as “coconut sugar”. Palm sugar is a semi-refined sugar sold in semi-moist cakes or loafs. Palm sugar is produced from the boiled sap of various palm trees. Palm sugar is less intensely-sweet than refined cane sugars and possesses more flavors, comparable to (but distinct from) those that molasses lends brown sugars. Notes: some jaggery is palm sugar; light-colored palm sugar is often a blend of palm sugar and refined cane/beet sugar, whereas darker, richer palm sugar is more likely to be pure palm sugar (see also gula jawa).