I was just looking for something fun to do today in the kitchen so I thought I would try making homemade brown sugar. I had read about it a few times but was skeptical that it would be anything I would want to use. After all the thought of just pouring 1 and 1/2 tablespoons of molasses over 1 cup of white sugar didn't really sound all that promising. But was I ever wrong! I encourage any serious bakers to make their own -- I've never smelled or felt such nice brown sugar before. It's much simpler even than how Martha demostrates you do it - she uses a food processor. I don't know about you but I don't want to clean up anymore stuff than I have to.
I just used a fork and mashed happily away until there were no more clumps of molasses and voila -- a lovely bowl of soft and aromatic brown sugar. As you can see by my picture below I should have mashed a little longer and I did do so before putting it into the mason jar pictured above. There is very little chance that you can do anything wrong with this recipe - you can pour anywhere from 1 tablespoon to 6 tablespoons of molasses into your sugar and you'll still turn it into brown sugar! However for my taste the 1 and 1/2 tablespoon was just right!
No comments:
Post a Comment