SC - saffron

[Elaine Koogler]

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Unto the Gathered Cooks does Gwynydd send the following:

Ah, so what you call "confectioner's sugar" is what we call "icing mixture" - a blend of icing sugar and corn flour (as we call it).  It is what I use to coat my Turkish Delight - I don't see the point in doing the mixing myself when I can buy it so easily!  (Mind you, I wonder who uses it to make icing - mine always fails if I do!)

I was at the supermarket today and happened to look (actually, went out of my way to look) at the sugar section.  First surprise - I found both the "or" and the "er" endings for castor sugar.  I did find demera (? spelling) sugar which the packet suggested was sugar with some of the molasses left in making it particularly good for coffee (hmmmm - I have some doubts here).  I also found coffee crystals which I absolutely adore - in or out of coffee!

Gwynydd (the seriously sweet-toothed)

At 2000-03-30 15:26:04.656001, 
Mordonna22 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/29/2000 7:20:05 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
> Elysant at aol.com writes:
> 
> << 
>  Icing sugar = powdered sugar =  confectioner's sugar >>
> 
> oops, not quite.  Confectioners sugar contains corn starch in 
> addition to the 
> sugar.
> 
> Mordonna the Cook,
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> (m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)
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