/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15818143]

Why do recipes from even autistic sources like ATK or Alton Brown still call for brown sugar - or even worse specifically "light" or "dark" brown sugar - instead of just specifying an amount of white sugar and molasses?
But yeah, no let's just purchase a different product that consists entirely of those two ingredients (that you already have in the pantry) mixed together to produce something with less shelf life than either ingredient on its own.
99% of the time it's just being mixed into a batter.
Why do they do it? What is the fucking point?

[Anonymous No.15818155]

theres no country in the world where molasses is more likely to be in someone's pantry than brown sugar

[Anonymous No.15818178]

>>15818155
That's because retarded cookbook authors keep listing it as an ingredient instead of the one thing you can add to white sugar (which literally every kitchen already has) to produce the same thing.
Instead they want you to buy this crap that inevitably develops hard imiscible nuggets in storage.

[Anonymous No.15818486]

>>15818155
I'm from New England and everyone has both. Molasses stirred into milk is wicked

[Anonymous No.15818509]

>>15818155
Most Dutchmen have pic related and it's basically molasses

[Anonymous No.15818519]

for me? it's raw sugar

[Anonymous No.15818528]

>>15818155
I always have cane syrup, but it's close enough

[Anonymous No.15818533]

>>15818143
Ok Adam

[Anonymous No.15818693]

Proper brown sugar isn’t that shit in your pic, which is indeed just molasses and sugar.

[Anonymous No.15818704]

>>15818693
Nobody uses "proper" brown sugar anymore and any recipe that calls for brown sugar sure as hell won't assume you are.

[Anonymous No.15818879]

>>15818693
Indeed.
Shaving a piloncillo may be a bit of work, but a food processor eases the trouble.

>>15818143
>why still call for brown sugar
Any brown sugar may be used. Commodity white sugar + molasses is the lowest tier; maple sugar is high tier.
"Brown sugar" is just a codename for sweetness with flavor. Light implies a little flavor, dark implies more flavor. Unspecified means whatever.

[Anonymous No.15818906]

>>15818178
>he can't break up sugar cubes
You should go to /fit/ for a while

[Anonymous No.15818924]

>>15818178
>clumps of brown sugar are "immiscible"
pseud detected, next time try using words you actually know