SC - Re: SC from Traveling Dysshes

[Karen O]

	Forget who wrote
	>Ok, great info!   But I still do not understand why do UK recipes
call for
	>caster sugar in the batter?
		Cadoc wrote
		<< Caster is their regular grade of sugar like ours, icing
sugar is their
		 fine sugar. >>

Er actually, no. Not sure where you got that idea. 'Sugar' is our regular
grade of sugar in the UK. Castor sugar is more expensive due to the finer
grade (by about 20 to 30 pence depending where you shop) so is used by most
only for baking. Icing sugar is icing sugar.

Possibly castor sugar was specified for the batter as they figured the less
dissolving of the sugar by mixing you had to do, the lighter it would be???

Does anyone know if they usually put additives into the castor sugar (I
remember someone said they added something to normal sugar to make it
disperse better?)

Al Vostro e al Servizio del Sogno
Lucretzia

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