panelan.

1830 R. L. Vowell Campaigns & Cruises I. 134 On some few plantations they boil the syrup down, without clarifying it, and pour it into moulds, where it forms a coarse, ungranulated substance; called, according to the shape of the moulds, papelon and panela.

1836 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc 6 124 The great staples of the federation, and its principal articles of export..are indigo, cochineal,..balsam, sugar, and rapadura, or panela: the latter is a species of brown sugar principally used for the distilling of spirits.

1887 Ohio Democrat (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 8 Dec. A pretty little boy with dazzling teeth offered a handful of moist sugar, or panela, to the little woman.

1922 H. A. Franck Working North from Patagonia 59 Tucuman retains none of the primitive methods by which cane is turned into brown lumps of panela or chancaca on the little plantations scattered through the Andes.

1990 ‘L. de Bernières’ War Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts xxxviii. 322 They huddled despondently around their little fires, chewing guava jelly and blocks of panela to get themselves going, and complaining of headaches.

2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 5 Jan. 4 The captives survived mostly on yucca and panela, a diet so laden with carbohydrates that they would later acquire the distended bellies of their guards.