On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:14:24 -0500, The Cook >
wrote:

>On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 18:13:42 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>
>>On 2013-11-09 5:41 PM, sf wrote:
>>> On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 13:50:13 -0800, Mark Thorson >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That sounds about right. Sugar comes with molasses in it. The refining
>>>>> process removes the molasses and then they add it back to white sugar to
>>>>> make brown.
>>>>
>>>> That's only true of brown sugar from sugar beets,
>>>> which is white sugar coated with a sugar cane extract.
>>>> Brown sugar from sugar cane has never been white sugar.
>>>
>>> He's in the part of the country that would normally have beet sugar.
>>> The rest of us get one or the other, depending on price negotiations,
>>> unless the package is clearly labeled as something specific... which
>>> is when I cross my fingers and hope it's true.
>>>
>>
>>I checked a number of sites. One site was for a brand of cane sugar....
>>marketed as can sugar not brown sugar... with a blurb at the bottom
>>about how other how other brown sugars are artificially coloured but
>>that their product is a natural combination of sugar and molasses. All
>>the other sites said that brown sugar is made by combining white sugar
>>with molasses.
>
>I have a light brown sugar that lists its ingredients as "Evaporated
>cane juice." It is Florida Crystals and the label says "Natural
>Sugar, Pure Florida cane sugar. Certified carbon free.
>
>I found a bag in a "general store" that is labeled Evaporated Cane
>Juice.
>
>I would guess that dark brown sugar has molasses added and right now I
>do not have a package of regular light brown sugar. Will probably be
>at the grocer store today and will check the labels on some packages.
>
>BTW evaporated cane sugar is much more expensive that the molasses
>added.

I know sugar cane- well I grew up on a sugar plantation long ago..
When sugar juice is extracted from the cane, it goes into the boiler
and it comes out as thick molasses with sugar in it. So you spin out
the molasses in a cool centrifugal machine and you have raw sugar-
which is sort of brownish and molasses. Then the Hawaiian sugar goes
to the refinery in CA where they remelt it, extract the bit of brown
that's left and then recrystalize it to white.

So, to get brown sugar in the store- the dark brown kind, they add
molasses back. "Evaporated cane Juice" is how it begins, imho- boil
the natural cane juices as I start above. simply sugar. Funny term.

aloha,
Cea