Not to give you a misleading impression of the degree to which my abstemious nature has hampered my knowledge of the practices of those who indulge, but sucrose is only marginally soluble in alcohol; "taking it with sugar" entailed first dissolving the sugar in hot water before stirring it into spirit. And that spirit typically was less than 50% ethanol anyway. (Wimps!!!)
Dry sugar is barely soluble in dry (absolute) ethanol. Possibly by heating it under pressure one could dissolve it before it underwent thermal decomposition, but I never have tried that.
Either.
Possibly MeOH? Glycol? Dunno. The latter does not sound like a very practical extraction solvent.
For heaven's sake, DON'T try that at home!
Go well,
Jon