It is an object to provide a method in which a lignocellulosic material is
treated with a phenol derivative and acid, whereby a lignophenol
derivative can be recovered, and moreover sugar from an acid/sugar
solution obtained at the same time can be recovered and used easily and
efficiently. One form of the present invention relates to a method of
separating and recovering an acid/sugar solution and a lignophenol
derivative, comprising putting a reaction mixture of a lignocellulosic
material, a phenol derivative and an acid into an amount of water 0.5 to
6 times the amount of the mixture as a volume ratio, and leaving the
mixture to stand or maintaining the mixture in a weakly agitated state,
so as to agglomerate a lignophenol derivative produced as a solid phase,
and then carrying out solid-liquid separation, so as to separate and
recover the lignophenol derivative as the solid phase and an acid/sugar
mixture as a liquid phase.