jaggery

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A traditional dark-brown unrefined sugar made from palm tree sap which is used throughout South and Southeast Asia; (by extension) other types of unrefined sugar.

   “The next Tree is the Kettule. […] It yieldeth a ſort of Liquor, which they call Tellegie: it is rarely ſweet and pleaſing to the Pallate, and as wholſom to the Body, but no ſtronger than water. […] An ordinary Tree will yield ſome three, ſome four Gallons in a day, ſome more and ſome leſs. The which Liquor they boyl and make a kind of brown Sugar, called Jaggory; […]”

   “On Sunday, Oct. 12. being ſtored vvith all things needful for their Journey, viz. Ten Days Proviſion, a Baſin to boil their Provision in, two Calabaſhes to fetch VVater in, and tvvo great Tallipat Leaves for Tents, with Jaggory, Svveet-meats, Tobacco, Betell, Tinder-Boxes, and a Deer-Skin for Shoes, to keep their Feet from Thorns, becauſe to them they chiefly truſted.”

   “He counted the seasons by the special points that jutted out, such as the harvest in January, when his disciples brought him sugar cane and jaggery cooked with rice; […]”

2. (broadly, countable, uncountable)A small-scale production plant that processes sugar cane to make sugar.