[Sca-cooks] ground powder sugar

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

I confess i did not immediately visit the links provided by Stefan or Johnnae, so perhaps the following advice is in one or both. However, i have found it helpful to me, so here goes...

I long ago read or heard somewhere that running granulated sugar through blenders and electric grinders was good for cleaning them and removing unwanted mystery flavors. Naturally one cleans the item well before hand, but "stuff" can lurk in places hard to reach.

Sugar is awfully cheap for us in the Western world (& i am not referring here merely to the West Kingdom :-) in the 21st century. So perhaps, before grinding sugar to powder in an electric minion to use in a recipe, run some sugar through it first a time or two, then discard it.

Someone sometimes called Urtatim