On Food and Cooking

months between harvest and processing, during which time it can be tainted by soil bacteria and molds that rem ...

confections, and for that reason are specially treated to produce a sparkling, crystal-clear appearance. They ...

Powdered sugars contain around 3% starch by weight to absorb moisture and prevent caking, and therefore have a ...

Caster Superfine, ultrafine Powdered sugars: 0.01–0.1 mm Confectioner’s Powdered Fondant Icing OPPOSITE: Making cane ...

refining, and therefore have a more complex flavor than pure sucrose. There are several basic kin ...

applied to a different product, brown sugars produced at the refinery using raw sugar as the sta ...

(from minerals). Refinery brown sugars also develop what’s described as a licorice aroma from the long, s ...

Brown Sugars SucroseSoft85–93 SucroseCoated90–96 Glucose + FructoseSoft1.5–4.5 Glucose + FructoseCoated2–5 Other Organic ...

ranges from mild caramel to strong molasses. Using Brown Sugars Brown sugar is soft and clingy because it ...

such a thing as beet molasses, but it has a strong, unpleasant odor, and so is used to feed anim ...

of minerals, give final molasses a harsh flavor that makes it generally unfit for direct human consump ...

South, usually bleached with sulfur dioxide and strongly sulfurous to the taste. Today, most molasses avail ...

and baked beans are examples. Cane molasses is usually but unpredictably acidic; its pH varies be ...

inverted by acid or enzymes, is now sometimes called “high-test molasses.” It has been heated less, and ...

made not from cane, but from grapes. Italian saba is grape juice cooked down to a concentrate ...

sugars, mainly glucose and fructose due to the action of the fruit acids on sucrose. The acids are also ...

and a viscous syrup. A few years later, he discovered that malted barley had the same effect as the acid (and ...

some of the glucose sugars into fructose, which is much sweeter and therefore gives the syrups a h ...

Nowadays, enzymes from the easily cultured molds Aspergillus oryzae (also used in Japan to break rice star ...

The Properties and Uses of Corn Syrups Among the usual sweeteners available to the cook, corn syrups are a ...