When first learning to work with sugar back in culinary school, we were taught to only use a clean metal spoon to prevent crystallization while the sugar was melting. This and the vision of our chef p...
As pie and cookie season nears, we thought we'd focus on sugar for the final installment of our Fair Trade pantry series....
When making candy, we most often just follow the temperatures in the recipe and pay little attention to the actual stage. But it can be interesting to look at the stages side-by-side and realize what ...
We all know that sugar will melt when heated, losing its granular form and turning into a liquid. This we can see with our own eyes. But how it goes from a simple sugar syrup to dark caramel (to burnt...
As we mentioned in our post on crystallized sugar syrup, candy-making is a brand new culinary adventure for us. We're teaching ourselves the basics and look forward to sharing our triumphs and pitfall...
This weekend, we made a big batch of sugar cane syrup for some candy-making experiments. We used some of it right away without problems, but the leftovers crystallized into the cloudy, gritty mass you...
We picked up a bag of maple sugar on a recent trip (we should say "pilgrimage") to the King Arthur Baker's Store in Norwich, Vermont. It was a passing whim. We'd never used maple sugar before. We did...
We stumbled upon Didi Davis and her line of artisan sugar blends, salts, oils, and other condiments when she appeared at the Copley Square farmer's market at the tail end of the season a few years bac...
Shopping for gourmet food at Ikea sounds like a wacky idea. Once you've dragged yourself and your huge hard-to-pronounce pieces of furniture through miles of store, any remaining energy must be devo...
All this talk of coffee and we are thinking of cream and sugar bowls. We saw these incredibly whimsical sugar bowls and creamers at i suwanee and had to pass them on. They're by Jorine Oosterhoff an...
Like pans and prep tools there is a dizzying array of baking ingredients available. Even a small grocery store will offer at least five kinds of flour, four kinds of sugar and lots of other things t...
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