Sugarloaf

A sugarloaf may refer to :

Form of sugar

A sugarloaf was the traditional form, a tall gently-tapering cylinder with a conical top[1], in which refined sugar was exported from the Caribbean and eastern Brazil from the 17th to 19th centuries.

"...households bought their white sugar in tall, conical loaves, from which pieces were broken off with special iron sugar-cutters. Shaped something like very large heavy pliers with sharp blades attached to the cutting sides, these cutters had to be strong and tough, because the loaves were large, about 14 inches in diameter at the base, and 3 feet high [15th century]...In those days, sugar was used with great care, and one loaf lasted a long time. The weight would probably have been about 30 lb. Later, the weight of a loaf varied from 5 lb to 35 lb, according to the moulds used by any one refinery. A common size was 14 lb, but the finest sugar from Madeira came in small loaves of only 3 or 4 lb in weight...Up till late Victorian times household sugar remained very little changed and sugar loaves were still common and continued so until well into the twentieth century..."

"English Bread and Yeast Cookery", Elizabeth David [Penguin:Middlesex] 1977 (p. 139)

Today, such loaves are still common in some parts of Europe, especially in Germany where small loaves are a required ingredient for the holiday season drink Feuerzangenbowle.

Mountains and rock formations

The characteristic conical shape of a sugarloaf has led to a number of hills and mountains being named Sugarloaf, including:

Australia

• Mount Sugarloaf, near Newcastle, New South Wales
• Sugarloaf Hill, Sydney, New South Wales
• Sugarloaf Rock, Western Australia

Brazil

• Sugarloaf Mountain, Brazil (Pão de Açúcar), in Rio de Janeiro

Canada

• Mount Sugar Loaf, Quebec
• Sugarloaf Mountain (New Brunswick)

Ireland

• Great Sugar Loaf, in east County Wicklow
• Little Sugar Loaf, in east County Wicklow
• Sugarloaf, West Wicklow, in west County Wicklow
• Sugarloaf Hill (Knockmealdowns), in County Waterford
• Sugarloaf, Cork, in southwest County Cork

Isle of Man

• Sugarloaf Rock

UK

• Sugar Loaf Mountain, Wales

USA

• Sugarloaf Mountain in Boulder County, Colorado
• Sugarloaf Mountain (Florida), the highest point of peninsular Florida, located in the city of Clermont
• Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Maine)
  • Sugarloaf/USA ski resort
• Sugarloaf Mountain (Maryland)
• Mount Sugarloaf, South Deerfield, Massachusetts
• Sugarloaf Mountain, a scenic area in Marquette, Michigan
• Sugar Loaf (Mackinac Island), a rock formation on Mackinac Island, Michigan
• Sugar Loaf, Winona, Minnesota
• Sugarloaf Mountain (New York)
• Sugarloaf Mountain (Oregon)
• Sugarloaf Mountain (South Carolina)
• Sugarloaf Mountain (South Dakota)

Other places

A number of other places are named Sugarloaf:

UK

• Sugar Loaf railway station, a minor railway station in Wales and the 14th least used in the United Kingdom
• Sugar Loaf Hill on the eastern rim of the Devil's Punch Bowl, Hindhead, Surrey
• Sugar Loaf hamlet in Shavington cum Gresty, Cheshire

USA

• Sugarloaf, California, a residential community in the Big Bear Lake resort area
• Sugarloaf, Lake Tahoe, a climbing area in California
• Sugarloaf Key, an island in the lower Florida Keys
• Sugarloaf Island, an uninhabited island just off the waterfront of Morehead City, North Carolina
• Sugarloaf Parkway, a busy thoroughfare in Gwinnett County, Georgia
• TPC at Sugarloaf, a golf course in Duluth, Georgia
• Sugar Loaf, New York, an historic Hudson Valley hamlet
• Sugarloaf Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

New Zealand

• Sugarloaf Islands, New Plymouth, the islands surrounding Paritutu rock, sometimes itself referred to as the Sugarloaf, on the coast at New Plymouth, Taranaki province

Other things

• Sugarloaf, a type of pineapple
• Sugarloaf, the movie production company that made Kiss of the Spider Woman (film)
• Sugarloaf (band), a 1970s rock music group best known for their hit songs "Green-Eyed Lady" (1970) and "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" (1975)
• The sugarloaf helm was a late style of medieval great helm, with a conical top