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Is it possible to make excellent coffee ice cream at home?
Here’s one of 'em, for coffee gelato: 1 1/3 C demerara sugar 8 egg yolks 2 C milk 1/4 tsp sea salt 2 Tbsp (heaping) instant espresso (I use Medaglia d’Oro) 1 tsp vanilla (I use double strength) 2 C heavy cream (not...
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Tamasin Day-Lewis' cookery books, would someone please translate UK ingredients for US use?
unfamiliar with some of the food terminology. So far, I’ve puzzled out “castor sugar” (superfine in the US), “icing sugar” (confectioner’s) and "demerara sugar" (raw sugar) but can not find any...
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Cane Syrup
Alternatively, buy some turbinado or demerara sugar and add water to make a syrup. That’s what I would try.
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Help! Corn flour (ground maize) and polenta and corn bread
into mush and it was OK for breakfast. I think for polenta you want to go with a coarse grind, and that’s probably what your polenta meal is. BTW, I’m not a baker but demerara, turbinado, or one of the other...
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Dinner Party Menu Help
these responses made me giggle. who the hell don’t luv a potater? love the idea, sarah, for the tart. maybe a little demerara sugar and a quick blow of the torch (which i have not used yet - this is my chance!
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CHOCOLATE FLEUR de SEL COOKIES IN MY DREAMS [moved from L.A. board]
The dorie greenspan “world peace” cookies are rolled into a log and put into the frig for several hours, then the log can be rolled in demerara sugar before slicing and baking. I’ve done them that way, and they...
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Using Sugar in the Raw for Baking
I assume you mean “Sugar in the Raw” a trademarked product. It’s a larger crystal form of unrefined sugar similar to demerara or turbinado sugars. You can’t measure it one for one with granulated sugar...
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Birthday cake with natural sweetener, preferably banana?
to Alice Medrich in her book Pure Desserts). These include muscovado, turbinado and demerara. I gather that these are considered semirefined because some of the natural molasses is left in the sugar. It’s all sugar, just...
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Pressure cooker newbie - a question
Maybe you could try a Caribbean demerara brown sugar, not as sweet but loads of flavour. Heavier things will go to the bottom of a PC, so things like beans or pasta will scorch if the temp. is not cut back. There are a lot of...
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How do you remoisten dried brown sugar?
I do store my demerara in an airtight container. It will still get hard by the very, very end of its run. I too use the bread trick. Preferably either a stale or lightly toasted piece. A few hours later I have soft sugar again. I...
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Best way to achieve the sugar topped muffin/scone effect?
I use demerara sugar, I am not sure if it’s different from turbinado. The sugar has stuck both with and without an egg wash, but the wash makes it shinier and more professional looking.
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UITVLUGHT 1991 Rum Murray McDavid
JMF, Astor wines in NYC has it,so does Binny’s in Chicagolandia. I just ordered a bottle. As I love my Pt Morant/Demerara 10 year old from Classic Rums I gambled and bought a bottle. Waiting w/baited breath for the UPS to...
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Need Ideas for A House Cocktail (Old Time)
You can try a Improved Holland tail 2oz Boomsma Genever style gin 1/4 oz demerara simple syrup 1/4 oz Maraschino 2 Peychauds bitters Stir, serve with a lemon twist. or a Widows Kiss 1 oz Apple Jack (or calvados) 3/4 Yellow Chartreuse
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ISO one-bite deliciousness
. And TT, for your strawberries, do you want them pre-dipped in something, or do you want your guests to have something to dip into? If the latter, then you could just put a bowl of sour cream or creme fraiche and a bowl of...
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evaporated cane juice---refined sugar alternatives
All depends on what you are using the sugar for. I’ve tried Steen’s in pecan pie with disastrous results – too runny. Demerara and turbinado have disinctive flavors. Great in coffee but terrible in delicate...
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