Super Quick Video Tips: How to Turn White Sugar Into Brown

All you need is a little kitchen magic (and some molasses).

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[shmopus]

can you just add the molasses and sugar to your mix and skip the food processor step and get same result?

[whosu]

i do...i add molasses to botlle bbq sauce with a little brown sugar makes a good bbq sauce

[heylookatmelookatme]

Super! It's a lot easier to keep a small jar of molasses on hand than to keep ressurecting rock-hard brown sugar. Thanx!

[stooge]

I can see it now...
"Honey? Are we out of brown sugar?
"Yeah, I guess we are. We do have white sugar, though. Why don't you run to the store to pick up some molasses so we can make our own until we buy some the next time we're at the store?"
"Great idea, Honey! I'll be back in 15 minutes!"

[matthewfaulhaber]

If you put your brown sugar in a ziplock bag with 5 or 6 large marshmallows it will stay soft. It's works great!

[QuickQuips]

Really useful. It's easier to keep a lot of white sugar around, since brown always has that tendency to harden and clump together.

[GigaBoost]

But not brown sugar? And yeah, we don't even have molasses here, it's hard to get, you need to go to speciality stores for it pretty much.

[GigaBoost]

But... Who has molasses laying around?

[stevenjoe]

I do! The real question is, why don't you?