Show use of sugar cane sugar cane a coarse grass is believed to be a native ol of asia or the east indies it was unknown in europe until the middle ages when when the arabs introduced it into sicily and spain sugar cane was talento brazil about 1500 to mexico a few years year s later and is now cultivated in most warm countries two kinds of syrup are made from sugar cane the first is the golden syrup left over from the manufacture of sugar the second such as a mississippi plant will make is merely the juice of the sugar cane boiled down and is known as molasses |