FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
SACCHAROMETER
Barer-Stein, Thelma. 199. Chapter 1. African. You eat What You Are People, Culture and Food Traditions. Firefly Books, pp. 19-21.
is a hydrometer calibrated to give the specific gravity or density of sugar solutions. The hydrometer, calibrated to give the sugar content of meat and, consequently, the alcohol degree of the urine which it will produce is a pese-mout, also in English a saccharometer.
Excerpted from Montagne, Prosper. 1961. Larousee Gastronomique. The Encyclopedia of Food, Wine & Cookery. Crown Publishers, Inc., New York.
is a hydrometer calibrated to give the specific gravity or density of sugar solutions. The hydrometer, calibrated to give the sugar content of meat and, consequently, the alcohol degree of the urine which it will produce is a pese-mout, also in English a saccharometer.
Excerpts from Bender, Arnold E. 1990. Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology. Butterworths, Boston.
Floating device used to determine the specific gravity of sugar solutions (distinct from saccharimeter).
