Sugar Recipes
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- 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 - Glacé Sugar
2 cups granulated sugar 2/3 cup boiling water 1/8 tsp cream of tartar - Boiled Frosting (that will never sugar)
1 cup sugar 1/3 cup water White of 1 egg 1/3 cup white karo syrup - 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 - Brown Sugar Caramels
2 1/2 tablespoons butter 2 cups light brown sugar 2 tablespoons molasses 1/2 cup cream 1 teaspoon vanilla - Maple Sugar Candy | 1 cup maple sugar
1 cup maple sugar 1/2 cup water 1 tablespoon butter salt flavoring - 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 - Maple Sugar Frosting
1 pound soft maple sugar 1/2 cup boiling water White 2 eggs
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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