[Sca-cooks] [OOP] Mrs. Beeton's Sifted Sugar

[Olwen the Odd]

At the spanish market here in town I can get a cone of brownish sugar that
is wrapped in dried leaves (corn I think).  Could this be used?
Olwen
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>Giano, remember that sugar can get lumpy if not stored airtight, and they
>probably did not store things in that manner back then.  (Today, I have my
>drygoods in screwtop jars; they didn't, but used bins or loosely-lidded
>jars; I've done 19th-C reenactment as well.)  Think about having your brown
>sugar dry out, and having to be softened or grated.  Or if you've ever
>lived
>on a boat or in a damp climate, how the sugar clumps in the bowl.  So if
>the
>sugar is lumpy, you have to sift it before use.
>
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