The CookingBites recipe challenge: brown sugar

[Yorky]

It's really good, I prefer it over regular table sugar.

I just noticed your new custom title.

An interesting avatar if you're interested:

 

[Windigo]

I just noticed your new custom title.

An interesting avatar if you're interested:

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Thanks for the laugh! I'll consider it

Edit: went for this. Was thinking about changing my avatar indeed.

 

[badjak]

Does rock sugar / gula djawa /palm sugar count?
They are generally quite dark.

 

[caseydog]

Does rock sugar / gula djawa /palm sugar count?
They are generally quite dark.

I believed those are just unrefined sugars. I'm pretty sure the brown sugar medtran59 is referring to is a mixture of sugar and molasses. Of course, she is the judge, so she decides. Is brown sugar not easily available there?

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[Frizz1974]

Mmmmmmmm. Brown sugar. Never had the inkling to try it.

Closer in profile to palm sugar or jaggery than white sugar.

 

[Morning Glory]

That will be a problem because I think it's only the USA/Americas that that's the case for. Brown sugar isn't typically dyed white sugar in most countries I've travelled to or lived in.

Certainly UK and Aus and I think most of Europe, brown sugar is from sugar cane and is less refined than white sugar. White sugar can be from sugar cane or from beet.

As medtran49 says above:

There are brown sugars of various names worldwide. As long as the color of the sugar is golden brown to dark brown, you are good.

I will add this to the top post to clarify.

 

[badjak]

All sugar here is cane sugar and normally brownish in colour, sometimes light brown, sometimes dark brown.
White sugar is available, just haven't seen it for a while.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Here´s a delicious savoury fruit salad which goes well with a whole load of things; especially chicken and pork. It´s a wonderful combination of sweet, sour, spicy and salty. You can change the fruit you use if you wish (you might want to use nectarines, cantaloupe melon, papaya, etc).

Rudjak (Indonesian Fruit Salad)
Papelón is produced by heating sugar cane juice to high temperatures, removing the froth and some impurities, then cooling in moulds.

 

[Windigo]

Here´s a delicious savoury fruit salad which goes well with a whole load of things; especially chicken and pork. It´s a wonderful combination of sweet, sour, spicy and salty. You can change the fruit you use if you wish (you might want to use nectarines, cantaloupe melon, papaya, etc). View attachment 97862
Rudjak (Indonesian Fruit Salad)
Papelón is produced by heating sugar cane juice to high temperatures, removing the froth and some impurities, then cooling in moulds.

The traditional sugar for this is palm sugar, does that count too medtran49 ?

 

[Herbaceous]

We’d eat that by the heaping tablespoon when I was a kid. I may or may not still do that from time to time…

Are you my long-lost brother? I used to (and sometimes still do) the same thing! Only when my parents weren’t home, of course

 

[medtran49]

There are brown sugars of various names worldwide. As long as the color of the sugar is golden brown to dark brown, you are good.

Nothing lighter in color than palm sugar.

 

[Morning Glory]

To me, at least, brown sugar has never been white and then something added to it to make it brown again.

Me neither and I'm learning things. But for the purposes of this challenge any sort of brown sugar counts.

Lets get cooking! We are off to a flying start with 3 entries already and its only day two!

 

[TastyReuben]

Lets get cooking! We are off to a flying start with 3 entries already and its only day two!

I have a couple of things picked out. I’m trying to find things that are “brown sugar forward,” so to speak, since it usually just plays a behind-the-scenes role - get ready for a toothache!

I’m too learning new things, and that’s good. I think I’m safe in saying that to an average American, “brown sugar” and “sugar that is brown” are two very different things!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I have a rice dish planned for today. It was going to have been an entry for the previous challenge, but I didn't have any saffron left and was at 6 dishes anyway. So, given it features sugar and the only sugar in this house is versions of brown, I reckon it qualifies. I just need to wake up first, so I might go back to bed for a few hours. We had a bad storm during the night which woke me a 1:30am and we didn't get much sleep after that point.

 

[Morning Glory]

I have a rice dish planned for today. It was going to have been an entry for the previous challenge, but I didn't have any saffron left and was at 6 dishes anyway. So, given it features sugar and the only sugar in this house is versions of brown, I reckon it qualifies. I just need to wake up first, so I might go back to bed for a few hours. We had a bad storm during the night which woke me a 1:30am and we didn't get much sleep after that point.

Some sort of rice pudding, perchance? I love it but have only made it with white sugar.