I’m still waiting for the response from Vince, the ShamWow guy. I see he has neither condemned nor supported Bow Wow Wowser’s statement.
The last couple bags of brown sugar I bought seem to have been really dry and powdery.
But we like cookies!
My six-year-old scolded me for buying store-brand brown sugar, and I was like DUDE, that’s insane, it’s freakin’ sugar. But I caved, bought Domino, and lo and behold, it’s moister and finer-textured and lasts longer. She was right!
My grandmother used to make these incredible mounds of deliciousness that were basically melted butterscotch chips and crunchy chow mein noodles. I’m having cravings.
Another good reason to make the DIY version with molasses and white sugar instead. (However, in order not to waste the stuff you’ve already bought, as a previous poster noted you can put it in an airtight container with a damp paper towel, or slice of bread or halved apple, to let it re-absorb moisture.)
Note that I messed up the sugar/molasses ratio of homemade brown sugar in the earlier post: it should be one cup of granulated sugar to 2 Tbs molasses, or halve the molasses amount for light brown sugar.
Note also that this isn’t in any way a “fake” or “substitute” for commercial brown sugar: most commercial brown sugar products are made in exactly this way, by adding molasses to granulated sugar.
Neither is fully equivalent to so-called “natural brown sugar” or “raw sugar”, which is unrefined sugar with natural molasses content. But nutritionally and taste-wise, manufactured brown sugar and “natural brown sugar” are generally pretty much the same.
I thought this thread was about the dangers of sodium.
You certainly don’t want to go dropping it in water willy-nilly.
i remember haystack cookies. Yum.
Just because you say it doesn’t make it true.
The Southern Poverty Law center identifies hate groups. There are 52 groups which are Anti-LGBTQ, according to the SPLC. How many of them are Christian?
Irish Soda Bread
4 cups flour
1 Tbsp sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
4 Tbsp cold butter
1 cup currants or raisins
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 3/4 cups buttermilk
Preheat oven to 425°.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, and baking soda. Cut the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse meal, add in the currants or raisins.
Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Add beaten egg and buttermilk to the well and mix in with a wooden spoon until dough is too stiff to work with the spoon, then gently knead the dough to form a rough ball. (Dust your hands with a little flour.)
Don’t over-work the dough; knead it only until you get the dough ball. Form it into a round loaf, transfer to a greased cast iron skillet or a baking sheet. Cut an “X” across the top of the loaf about an inch and a quarter deep.
Bake until it’s golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped on the side of the loaf. About 40-45 minutes, or possibly longer if you used a cast iron skillet. (If it takes longer, you can ‘tent’ some aluminum foil over the loaf to keep the top from getting too dark.)
Enjoy it hot, with plenty of good butter!
In the interest of seeing how the other half lives, I’m going to take on a right-wing, tough love, anti-snowflake approach for this post.
Melania Knauss Trump is a good looking Eastern European woman who’s done soft-core porn. Eastern European women have a well earned reputation as prostitutes who cater to well heeled men all over the world. If you were going to characterize a typical high end call girl, hot Slavic chick who’s done porn would probably be very high on your list.
So, if former Soviet block ladies don’t want to be stereotyped as high end hookers, they need to stop turning tricks. (Just like black men who are pissed off at being stereotype as criminals need to stop committing so much street crime. Yes, as a black man, I know this is a specious, offensive argument.)
Mrs. Trump has sued those who spread rumors that she has worked as a prostitute. But if she wasn’t really working as a hooker, why would she need to cover it up? Huh? She needs to release all of her police records from high school up until now, in long form. Until she releases all her records, I can’t say for sure whether she’s a hooker or not. I mean, I’ve heard people, very reliable people, the best people, say that they don’t know how she paid for those Swiss ski trips. We have a right to know, don’t we?
Any good corned beef recipes?
I’m sorry, what was the topic again?
The three C’s: Corned beef, cabbage and cookies.
Now I want to serve my guests the St. Patrick’s Day corned beef and colcannon off the smooth, tanned body of an Eastern European prostitute.
Recipes available on request!
The shredded food diet book, by Melania Trump.
“Make America Grate Again!”
You wannabe Betty Crocker’s are the ones actually trolling. You know at some point every thread in The Pit could be treated as a recipe list.
Just for you: Troll House cookies.
Pretty sure there’s a few high end venues in NY, Los Angeles and Vegas where exactly that is going to happen tonight, and there will be people who portray both as Republican pillars of Family Values AND as Democrat defenders of progressive feminism, side by side drinking Guiness and sharing in the festivities…
Damn I never get invited to these!