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1846. A large amount of sugar-cane is grown [in the Santa Clara valley], from which is made panoche, a favorite sugar with the natives: it is the sirup from the cane boiled down, and run into cakes of a pound weight, and in appearance is like our maple-sugar.—Edwin Bryant, ‘What I saw in California,’ p. 408 (N.Y.). (Italics in the original.)
