sugar-sand

• “The crime scene is a far cry from the sugar-sand beaches and luxurious resorts of Longboat Key, 12 miles away, where police said that Cooper and Kouzaris had been staying.”

  The Guardian: Two Britons shot dead during Florida holiday in notorious gang area

• “When I drove back to New Orleans Friday, I still had hope: the shore was still intact, an endless stretch of perfect sugar-sand beach was still unstained.”

  The Huffington Post: Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Sadness and Seafood: New Orleans Recounts the Loss

• “That's blue for the sea and sky, and white for the sugar-sand beach.”

  NPR: Bailey White: 'The Wedding Horse'

• “Friends had invited Mr. Williams to spend spring break on the white sugar-sand beach in Cancun, Mexico.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Party Animals

• “Spread it evenly with a broad knife, over the top of each queen-cake, ornamenting them, (while the icing is quite wet) with red and green nonpareils, or fine sugar-sand, dropped on, carefully, with the thumb and finger.”

  Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie

• “While the last icing is wet, ornament it with coloured sugar-sand or nonpareils.”

  Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie

• “Or you may ice it; putting on the nonpareils or sugar-sand in such a manner as to mark out the cake in triangular divisions.”

  Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie

• “You may flower it with coloured sugar-sand or nonparels; but a newer and more elegant mode is to decorate it with, devices and borders in white sugar; they can be procured at the confectioners, and look extremely well on icing that has been tinted with pink by the addition of a little cochineal.”

  Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches

• “Make them all of a regular and handsome form, and touch the top of each with a spot of red sugar-sand.”

  Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches

• “Lay the cakes smoothly one on another, (each having a layer of jelly or marmalade between,) and either grate loaf-sugar over the top one, or ice it smoothly; marking the icing with cross lines of coloured sugar-sand, all the lines meeting at the centre so as to divide the cake, when cut, into triangular or wedge-shaped slices.”

  Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches

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