Sugar Recipes
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- Sugar Ginger Snaps
4 tablespoons lard 3 tablespoons butter 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup water (scant) Flour enough to roll 2 teaspoons ginger 1/2 teaspoon soda dissolved in warm water - Burnt Sugar Cake
1 1/2 cup butter 1 1/4 cups pulverized sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup cold water 2 1/2 cups flour 3 tablespoons caramel 2 teaspoons vanilla - Brown Sugar Fudge
2 Tbsps butter 2 cups brown sugar 3/4 cup milk or thin cream 3/4 cup walnuts, chopped - Sugar Cookies | 2 3/4 cups flour
2 3/4 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 3/4 cup soft butter or margarine 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla - 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 Drop Cookies
1 pound butter 4 cups brown sugar 4 eggs 4 cups sifted flour 2/3 teaspoon baking soda 1 pound pecans, chopped - Lemon Sugar
Cut sugar Lemons - Sugar Cookies | 1 1/2 pints sugar
1 1/2 pints sugar 1 pint sour milk 1 pint butter Yolks 6 eggs 1 level teaspoon soda 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder - Plain Sugar Cookies
1 1/2 cup butter 6 cups sugar 4 eggs 1 1/2 cup milk 10 tsps baking powder 12 cups flour 1/2 nutmeg 1 tsp salt - Brown Sugar Caramels | 2 1/2 Tbsps butter
2 1/2 Tbsps butter 2 cups brown sugar 2 Tbsps molasses 1/2 cup milk 4 squares unsweetened chocolate 1 tsp vanilla
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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