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What is sugar?
're not diabetic, your body can probably tolerate many more net carbs than I can, but if you moderate the refined flours, potatoes, rice, etc., I’d be willing to say that a teaspoon of sugar in your coffee or tea...
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Brands of sugar?
has boomed producing specialty sugars like turbinado for C&H and the brand "Sugar in the Raw", though the Hawaii sugar industry is seriously hurting. Most of A&B’s sugar is shipped to C&H in the San Francisco Bay Area for...
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French sugar cubes
Taikoo is a sugar refiner/seller in Hong Kong, (like Redpath’s here), not a confectioner. Camhay asked for elegantly wrapped cubes; I doubt the Taikoo products will qualify. And if had seen sugar cubes all jumbled up in a...
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Beware the Beet
Some white sugars are really beet sugar, which is perceptibly inferior to the slightly more expensive cane sugar.
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substituting honey for sugar
i have a guest coming to thanksgiving dinner who doesn’t eat refined sugar. i was planning, as a desert, on making a pumpkin ricotta bake, something similar to a cheesecake. the recipe calls for only half a cup of sugar and...
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Sugar-Free Cookies
While Mani’s bakery is delicious, as a diabetic I can tell you that their no-sugar desserts are still loaded with blood sugar busting refined carbohydrates and fruit juices. The effect on a diabetic is largely the same. I...
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Sugar chemist needed
I’ve gotten in the habit of using evaporated cane juice (unrefined sugar) for baking. It imparts an actual caramelly flavor, rather than just the bland, slightly chemical sweetness of refined sugar. And, chemically, it...
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Low Sugar Baking
you can combine the two. Thing is, you see, cakes and pies must be sweet. Low sugar usually means "low refined sugar" or "no sugar added". However, anything sweet and natural contains a form of sugar, be it lactose, glucose or...
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Using Sugar in the Raw for Baking
I don’t know exactly what you are trying to achieve by eliminating white sugar, but if you want to compensate for the nutrients that are removed from cane syrup in the process of refining, you could use recipes that call...
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Molasses / Brown Sugar
The standard molasses available in grocery stores, e.g., Grandma’s, is made from sugarcane that hasn’t been refined to crystal yet. Blackstrap molasses is a by-product of sugar refining, and is darker, less sweet and...
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Sugar alternative for Baking?
and is softer. These are basically minimally refined sugars that have more vitamins & minerals (but not by much, I would imagine) and many more flavor notes because more of the plant is present. Jaggery is the Indian version of...
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Mexican sugar question
Raw Sugar is what is left after processing the sugar cane to remove the molasses and refine the white sugar. In North America raw sugar is actually not “raw” as it has been partially refined to remove any...
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Raw Sugar Cane
and as slow as molasses. then there was that nasty smell when they were "refining" it. Raceland holds special memories. that’s my sugar cane story.
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Dr. Pepper with Cane Sugar
Evaporated cane juice is different from cane sugar. The former is just as the name implies: crystallized evaporated cane juice. The latter is refined white sugar. The former will have a rounder (or, some might say, murkier)...
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When is Beet Sugar Okay?
Refined white sugar is 99.9% pure sucrose – the source of the sugar shouldn’t make a difference at that point. I’m curious whether the side-by-side tests were double blind. If you believe that the sugar will...
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