Chinese Lump Sugar© Denzil Green
Chinese Lump Sugar is lumps of crystallized, refined sugar made from sugar cane.
It is opaque lumps of sugar, made in different sizes. The colour can be white or yellow; the yellow is referred to in English as Yellow Lump Sugar.
The sugar has a clear sugar taste, with no caramel tones even if it is the yellow-coloured one. It is not as sweet as regular white granulated sugar. Because it’s less sweet, it doesn’t overwhelm the flavour of tea as much as white sugar can.
It’s made by suspending string in a raw sugar cane juice. The sugar in the juice crystallizes around the string, forming lumps of sugar crystals around it.
It is sold in bags or boxes.
Cooking Tips
You can grind it down in a mortar or pestle to make a finer sugar.
It dissolves in water, though it will take a while.
Substitutes
For each sugar crystal called for, swap in 1 tablespoon white granulated sugar.
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Amount
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| Calories | |
110
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| Fat | |
0 g
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| Saturated | |
0 g
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| Trans | |
0 g
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| Cholesterol | |
0 mg
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| Carbohydrate | |
27 g
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| Fibre | |
0 g
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| Sugars | |
26 g
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| Protein | |
0 g
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