Caster Sugar © Denzil Green Caster Sugar is a very fine white sugar mostly used in baking, as it dissolves very quickly. For this reason, serious bakers like to use it in cakes, meringues, dessert soufflés, mousses, custards, etc. Its quick-dissolving abilities also make it a favourite of bar-tenders. It also makes a good sprinkling…
White Sugar
Cinnamon Sugar
Sugar that has been flavoured with cinnamon. Mix 7 parts of white sugar and 1 part ground cinnamon. Lovely on toast, pancakes or French toast.
Jam Sugar
Jam sugar is a mixture of sugar, pectin and citric acid for making jams and jellies with. It is popular in Europe. There are also now low-sugar and sugar-free versions. The package directions will tell you what ratio of fruit to use to jam sugar.
Preserving Sugar
Preserving Sugar is white sugar that comes in crystals larger than those in granulated sugar. The idea is that because the crystals are larger, they will take longer to dissolve completely, helping to prevent sugar congregating at the bottom of your pot, or rising up as froth to the surface. Because it minimises scum, it…
Sugar Cubes
Sugar Cubes © Paula Trites Sugar Cubes are cubes of sugar meant for table use. They allow a user of them to sweeten his or or beverage as desired. Generally, the beverages are hot, typically coffee or tea, as the cubes dissolve away very quickly into a liquid when the liquid is hot. They can…
Sugar Hats
A Sugar Hat is a tall cone of white, refined sugar made in Germany and in Austria, where it is called a “Zuckerhut” in German. Sugar Hats used to be one of the forms that sugar was sold in, in Germany and Austria, until sugar cubes were invented in 1841, which then gradually displaced the…
White Sugar
Sugar © Denzil Green White Sugar is a dried, finely-ground crystal powder use as a sweetener. It can come from two different sources — sugar cane, or sugar beet. Sugar cane is actually a grass that resembles bamboo. It grows up to 20 feet (6 metres) tall. It grows best in tropical areas (warm climates…