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Cheryl wrote:
>Dave Smith Wrote:
>
>> I have had the same half slice of bread in the Tupperware container with
>> brown sugar for years. It's magic. There is no reason to change it.
>>

>It doesn't get moldy in all that time?


Sugar is a preservative, not many molds survive concentrated sugar,
which is why prunes and other dried fruit keeps so well. I use a
piece of citrus peel as a sugar humidifier... did the same with
tobacco when I used to be a pipe smoker.