Sugar Recipes
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- 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 - Clarified Sugar
2 lbs loaf sugar 1 pint cold water 1/2 egg white - Sugar Nut Candy
3 pounds white sugar 1/2 pint water 1/2 pint vinegar 1/4 pound butter 1 pound hickory nut kernels - 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 Loaf Cake
1/2 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 2 egg yolks, beaten 1 1/2 cups sifted flour Few grains salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 cup milk 1 cup broken nuts 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 egg whites, whipped s - 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 - Lemon Sugar
Cut sugar Lemons - Green Mint Sugar
1/3 cup sugar 2 drops green color paste 1 drop of peppermint oil - Maple Sugar Creams
Maple sugar French Cream (see French Cream Candy recipe)
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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