Sugar Recipes
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- Brown Sugar Cake
2 squares bitter chocolate 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup coffee - Sugar Nut Candy | 3 pounds sugar
3 pounds sugar 1/2 pint water 1/2 pint vinegar 1/4 pound butter 1 pound hickory-nuts - Brown Sugar Frosting
1 cup brown sugar 1/3 cup water 2 egg whites 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon vanilla - Maple Sugar Candy
1 pound maple sugar 1 pint milk 1 tablespoon butter - Sugar Nut Candy
3 pounds white sugar 1/2 pint water 1/2 pint vinegar 1/4 pound butter 1 pound hickory nut kernels - Sugar Cookies | 1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup sugar 1 egg and 1 egg white 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1 of flavoring 2 cups flour - Double Boiler Brown Sugar Frosting
2 1/4 cups brown sugar 1/4 teaspoon baking powder Few grains salt 5 tablespoons water 2 egg whites, unbeaten 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup chopped nuts - Brown Sugar Caramels
2 1/2 tablespoons butter 2 cups light brown sugar 2 tablespoons molasses 1/2 cup cream 1 teaspoon vanilla - Sugar Cookies | 1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon milk flavoring 2 eggs 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 cups flour - Maple Sugar Candy | 1 cup maple sugar
1 cup maple sugar 1/2 cup water 1 tablespoon butter salt flavoring
About Sugar
- The American Heart Association recommends the following for daily sugar intake: 9 Tsp (Men), 5 Tsp (Women), 3 Tsp (Children)
- The average american consumes over 20 teaspoons of sugar per day
- Most sweeteners including sugar and fruit extracts, cane juices, honey, syrup, etc. have a fructose/glucose ratio of approximately 50/50
- Fructose is found in sugar and most sweeteners and is unhealthy because it goes straight to the liver causing diabetes and heart disease
- Sugar is sometimes referred to as "evaporated cane juice"
- Many people choose sugar over high fructose corn syrup because sugar is not as highly processed
- Consumption of sugar increases insulin levels, increases energy, but then leads to a drop in both and likely a craving for more food
- Sugar is a carbohydrate with about 9 calories per sugar cube
- About 40% of the world's sugar production comes from Brazil
- The fully mature sugar cane stem can grow as tall as five meters
- Sugar cane and sugar beet are the most common sources of refined sugar
- Sugar is sucrose which can is found naturally in many plants
- Christopher Columbus is credited with bringing sugar to the Americas
- The process of creating sugar through evaporation of the sugar cane juice began in India
- The earliest known production of sugar dates back to 9000 BC in the southwest Pacific island of New Guinea
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