In minecraft Beta there are two uses.
To make sugar, just place a piece of sugar cane in any crafting square.
To make books, make a horizontal line of sugar cane on a crafting bench to get paper. To make books, place three sheets of paper in a vertical line to make a book. To make a bookshelf, fill the top and bottom rows of the crafting bench with wooden planks and fill the middle row with books.
In Minecraft Alpha the only use of sugar cane is making books and bookshelves.
Put sugarcane into a crafting table to convert it into sugar.
sugar cane is found by water (but not really in the water by the snow
you have to find sugar cane witch is always near water and then destroy it and replant it.
Sugar canes are naturally found on dirt and grass next to the water.
Milk milk milk sugar egg sugar wheat wheat wheat
You can grow: Mushrooms Trees Sugar Cane Wheat
Because brown sugar adds color to the tocino.
Sugar can be used in some potions, and also crafting different food items like pimpkin pie.
You need light, water, soil, and patience.
I believe that some sugarcane is growing near the water's edge by the largest house, and you can turn that into sugar. 1 sugarcane = 1 sugar.
You find sugar cane which is found by water and put it on a crafting table like this SSS S=Sugar cane
Sugar in minecraft is used to make a cake but you also need 3 buckets of milk and 1 egg when you have made the cake you can eat it to gain your health. Also, in 1.4.2, if you combine sugar, an egg, and a pumpkin together, you will get pumpkin pie.