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Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar © Denzil Green Brown Sugar is processed, refined white sugar, cane or beet, that has been thinly coated with molasses. It is moist and clingy because the molasses film on its white sugar crystals has about 35 times more water in it than in white sugar on its own. When left exposed to…

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Dark Brown Sugar

Dark Brown Sugar © Denzil Green Dark Brown Sugar is white, refined sugar that has been coloured on the outside of the sugar granules with molasses, which also gives it flavour. More molasses is used than is used in colouring “light brown sugar”, so the colour and flavour are more pronounced. Substitutes 1 cup (6…

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Dark Muscovado Sugar

Dark Muscovado is stickier and stronger tasting than Light Muscovado. Muscovado is like brown sugar, except it is made differently. Instead of being white sugar to which molasses is added, it is sugar that is boiled down from sugar cane juice, purified with lime juice, but then not refined any further (the further refinement is…

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Demerara Sugar

Demerara is a coarse sugar with yellowish-brown crystals. It is less sweet than white sugar, but makes up for it with a caramel or toffee aftertaste. In many parts of the world, demerara is sold unpurified (see also: Raw Sugar). In North America and the UK, however, it has to be sold refined, because the…

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Golden Caster Sugar

Caster (Superfine) sugar that is made from unrefined sugar. Has a light brown colour and a very subtle buttery toffee taste. As of 2004, it was about double the price of regular Caster (Superfine) sugar. Substitutes Caster Sugar; regular white sugar Nutrition Same as sugar. See Nutrition in main sugar entry. Storage Hints Sealed container…

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Jaggery

Jaggery is an unrefined sugar made in India that is not purified or filtered. It can be made from either sugar canes or palm tree sap. There is no clear, universal distinction made across all the regions in India between Jaggery from sugar cane and Jaggery from palm trees, though sometimes you will see someone…

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Light Brown Sugar

Light Brown Sugar © Denzil Green Light Brown Sugar is processed, refined white sugar granules that have been lightly coated with molasses. It is used in recipes where the coloration of darker Brown Sugar would not be desirable. See main entry on Brown Sugar. Substitutes For 1 cup (6 oz / 170g) of Light Brown…

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Light Muscovado Sugar

Light Muscovado is a drier and milder-tasting version of Dark Muscovado.

Palm Sugar

Palm Sugar is made in South Asia from sap extracted from either the Sugar Palm (Borassus flabellifer) or the Palmyra Palm.It is obtained from the flower sheaths up at the top of a palm tree, that look a bit like long cobs of corn. You cut off the top few inches of the sheath, and…

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Panela

Panela © Denzil Green Panela is unrefined sugar with a high molasses content. Non-centrifugal means are used to produce the sugar. Sugar cane juice is just evaporated over heat until it forms a syrup called “miel” (sic), then it is boiled and stirred until it crystallizes and forms “panela.” Panela is sold in squat blocks….

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Turbinado Sugar

Turbinado is raw sugar that has been “steam cleaned” to remove any possible moulds in the sugar. While not as full-flavoured as completely raw sugars, it does have more colour and flavour than refined sugars. It is a light brown colour. Nutrition Same as sugar; see nutrition in main Sugar entry.

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