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Default Cane, Beet or Splenda?

On 3/1/2011 11:50 AM, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:18:46 -1000, >
> arranged random neurons and said:
>
>> On 2/28/2011 4:07 PM, sf wrote:
>>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:01:37 -0800 (PST), Christopher Helms
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can make your own brown sugar by taking white sugar and adding a
>>>> little molasses to it. You'll have to sort of squish it together with
>>>> your fingers to mix it (spoon mixing won't work), but that's all brown
>>>> sugar is anyway.
>>>
>>> Have you ever tried doing it?
>>>

>>
>> I've done this before - it tastes pretty much how you'd imagine. Like
>> sugar mixed with molasses. Most folks would be able to tell right off
>> that something was not right it you tried to pass it off as brown sugar.

>
> I tried mixing molasses with Splenda in a desperate stab at a sugar
> free dessert for Bill. Does. Not. Work.
>

Molasses is mainly sugar anyway, isn't it?
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