Rex Trulove
A lot of people know that if you have brown sugar that is hard, you can soften it by putting it in an air-tight container along with with a slice of bread. Do you know why this works?
Brown sugar is simply granulated, processed sugar to which molasses has been added. You can even make your own by adding a tablespoon of molasses to a cup of granulated sugar. Molasses is syrupy because it contains moisture. When brown sugar dries out, the moisture evaporates and the brown sugar gets hard.
Bread contains roughly 20-30% moisture, so adding the slice of bread means that the brown sugar can draw the moisture out of the bread. As it does so, it gets soft again.
I knew this, but didn’t know why! Thanks for sharing!
This is a little trick I’ve been using since I was a child.
The overall photo looks so good! I prefer brown sugar over white one though
Brown sugar is better for you, a little, because of the molasses.
I did know this one. I are up eating brown sugar and still do on oatmeal.
I also like it as a poor man’s dessert…on buttered toast.