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.

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

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.

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.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

The Cook wrote:
>
> 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.

I've got a brand new box of Dominos Light Brown Sugar. Ingredients
say: Brown Sugar. heheh That doesn't tell us much.

G.

On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:05:24 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>The Cook wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>I've got a brand new box of Dominos Light Brown Sugar. Ingredients
>say: Brown Sugar. heheh That doesn't tell us much.
>
>G.

Dominos Sugar is made from beets. Don't think there is molasses in
beets- but I could be wrong.

aloha,
Cea

On Monday, November 11, 2013 6:49:50 AM UTC+10, pure kona wrote:
>
> Dominos Sugar is made from beets. Don't think there is molasses in
> beets- but I could be wrong.

There is beet molasses. Cane molasses is supposed to be better for brown sugar. (And if Austrian rum is made from beet molasses, I think cane molasses is better for rum as well.)

On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 13:01:37 -0800 (PST), Timo
> wrote:

>On Monday, November 11, 2013 6:49:50 AM UTC+10, pure kona wrote:
>>
>> Dominos Sugar is made from beets. Don't think there is molasses in
>> beets- but I could be wrong.
>
>There is beet molasses. Cane molasses is supposed to be better for brown sugar. (And if Austrian rum is made from beet molasses, I think cane molasses is better for rum as well.)

Thank you, I don't know beet/sugar. Just cane sugar.

I do think they make some rum out of cane sugar but I have never had
any.

aloha,
Cea

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