SC - Sugar Questions

[HICKS, MELISSA]

A Note for the Aussie's on this list:

> Modern Powdered sugar is cut with cornstarch to keep it from clumping
> and
> to make it look whiter. So, no, modern storebought powdered sugar is
> not
> period. In fact, if you use it in some recipes, the cornstarch will do
> very
> funky things. If you take regular sugar and whiz it long enough in
> your
> food processor, you will get "superfine" sugar, ie essentially
> powedered
> sugar without the cornstarch. I have occasionally seen superfine at
> the
> store, too, and know its available through cake decorating catelogs.
> 
We can buy Icing Sugar and Incing Powder.  

Icing POWDER is indeed cut with cornstarch or wheatstarch.  However, 
Icing SUGAR is simply powdered sugar - the next stage up from Caster
Sugar.

For ease of use I use Icing Sugar in some confectionery recipes, instead
of granulated white sugar.

I wont enter the debate on sugar being that finely ground is/is not
period, but just wanted to clarify that not all powdered sugar in
Australia is cut.

Meliora - who learns these things because her mother is a Coeliac !!


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