Dora wrote on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:12:37 -0400:

> James Silverton wrote:
>>
>> Incidentally, perhaps I should mention again that traditional
>> "brown sugar" that has become caked or hard can be easily
>> softened for cooking purposes by nuking for a few seconds.
>> This is a lot less messy than hitting it with a mallet :-)

> Brown sugar doesn't cake if you prevent it from the time you
> open a new box. I find it easy to put a rubber band around
> the plastic bag of sugar then put the bag inside a Ziploc
> each time I use it. It never cakes.

Depends on the humidity of where you live and what's hard about nuking?

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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