Full English Breakfast with **Brown Sauce**

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

Carol:
> So caster sugar is granulated, and icing sugar also has crystals? I
> thought that icing sugar, at least, would be powdered. (We use
> powdered sugar to make icing, or, as people in my part of the country
> call it, frosting.) I had it all wrong, apparently. 
> 
> Brown sugar is finer than granulated (white or refined) sugar, which
> has the molasses removed, IIRC. It (brown sugar) sticks together and
> has to be packed into a measuring cup, whereas granulated sugar can
> just be poured, like salt. (If you pour powdered sugar, you'll be
> breathing the stuff, it's so fine--about the consistency of
> cornstarch, come to think of it--I just checked a package in my
> cupboard and cornstarch *is* one of the ingredients. never knew that
> before!)
> 
> Carol, now wondering what a caster is and which kind of sugar the
> British put in their coffee or tea

Geoff:
Right,  let's clarify the UK situation, shall we? Do pay attention everyone, 
even you in the back row. Yes, including you -  Dumbledore. OK. White 
sugar. Granulated>Caster>Icing is the progression for increasingly fine sugar. 
Caster (and also granulated) would be used for cooking; caster might 
also be used for sprinkling on, say, fruit such as strawberries. Icing speaks 
for itself. It is used for extremely smooth results. In terms of you pouring
sugar, our granulated would not pout as easily as salt.

Brown sugar. In the UK, there are two main types. Demerara - which is 
granular but softer than white granulated sugar and Dark Brown Soft 
Sugar which would normally be used for cookery purposes - cakes maybe.

What do I use for tea and coffee? Nowadays, I don't take sugar in tea but 
at one time I would have used white granulated. For coffee - demerara. I 
also use the latter for things like melon.

Right, there's the bell. For next lesson, a foot of parchment on the uses of 
brown sugars in potion making. Off you go to Transfiguration.