Several years ago, I was in the middle of creaming butter, getting ready to make cookies. It wasn’t until AFTER I added the white sugar and rummaged through the pantry that I realized we were completely out of brown sugar. YIKES! That’s the first time I learned how to make brown su...
If you plan to add food coloring, like for purple lavender syrup, or if you want to make a light-colored infusion, such as pretty, pale peach syrup, then you should stick to white sugar. Water Water is the second ingredient. Just as with sugar, the water you use can make a big di...
Maple taffy (AKA maple syrup on snow) is a sugar candy made by boiling maple syrup to the soft ball stage, then pouring it on clean snow.
This looks like brown sugar, but with bigger granules. Raw sugar is a byproduct of the refining process – it’s what’s left after molasses has been removed from sugar cane to make white sugar. These days, the sugar is not actually “raw”, because it undergoes a process to remove co...
Remove unwanted hair at home with the best sugar wax recipe and tips to make sugar wax paste from dermatologists.
Did you know that it takes 40 gallons of sap to make just ONE gallon of maple syrup? No wonder the danged stuff is so expensive. It occurred to me recently that perhaps I could try to make my own. I had heard of other people doing it, and figured I could save a...
Sap from a sugar maple drips into a bucket. Like most men, I am loathe to ask directions, be it to the highway entrance, to assembling a gas grill, or how to make maple syrup. Asking shows weakness; it shows dependence; it means that you probably actually liked those flowered gardening...
Bookmark this guide to making brown sugar now, and the next time you run out of the good stuff, you'll have a backup plan ready.
Brown sugar is simply granulated sugar with molasses added to it to make it moist. That’s it! Brown sugar because of the addition of the molasses gives baked good a caramel-like flavor and can help add moisture to your desserts and helps make them chewier....
How to Make Mead (Honey Wine): Mead is super easy to make. And turns out GREAT!! (most of the time) Depending on your Recipe. It can Take as little as a month, years, or even up to a life time for it to ferment. The recipe I will post first is great fo