It’s been a while since I offered up a good old fashioned tutorial. So here we go with perhaps the easiest yet: How to Make Brown Sugar!
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How to Make Brown Sugar:

Now you may wonder why you would ever need to make brown sugar, after all it’s in every store already made. True. But every once in a while haven’t you gone to the cupboard to pull out the brown sugar and find it’s hard as a rock? Well, if you have two simple ingredients in your pantry, you can make soft, fresh brown sugar in a flash! And all you need is granulated sugar and unsulphured molasses! 

Let’s Talk about Molasses:

Molasses is an ingredient that used to found in just about every pantry, but in the last 50 years it sort of fell by the wayside. It’s a natural sweetener and a good source of potassium, calcium and iron and when combined with granulated sugar it makes brown sugar. Yup! That’s what you have been buying in a bag all these years.

THE RECIPE: How To Make Brown Sugar

You will need: a hand mixer, granulated sugar and unsulphured molasses.

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How to Make Brown Sugar

Prep Time

3 mins

Cook Time

2 mins

Total Time

5 mins

 

This recipe makes a fairly light brown sugar. If you prefer darker, simply add more molasses.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: how to

Servings: 1 serving

Author: Linda Spiker

Ingredients

• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 T unsulphured molasses

Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl, use a hand mixer to beat sugar and molasses till molasses is evenly distributed throughout the sugar and clumps are gone. This usually takes 3 or so minutes so be patient.

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