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| 2789.1 | Easy, make your own | MR4DEC::MAHONEY | | Mon Dec 10 1990 11:13 | 8 |
| No, it doesn't work well because of different consistencies but... you
can MAKE confectioners sugar very easily! just use a blender, put about
1/2 of normal sugar and process it till powder, just that, keep on
making it till you reach amount needed. I do that any time I run out
of it and it worked great every time. Try it.
Ana
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| 2789.2 | | MR4DEC::MAHONEY | | Mon Dec 10 1990 11:14 | 1 |
| Hoops! I forgot to say put 1/2 CUP or less each time for easy blending.
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| 2789.3 | Caveats... | PNEUMA::HACHE | Get on Your Knees & Fight Like a Man | Mon Dec 10 1990 14:00 | 8 |
| With my food processor, I generally have to do pulses (on/off, on/off)
or else the sugar gets too heated and doesn't powder right.
Also, I find it's hard to duplicate the real stuff, you can get finer
sugar this way, finer even than bar sugar, but I've never gotten powder
suitable for frosting or the like.
dm
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| 2789.4 | | MR4DEC::MAHONEY | | Tue Dec 11 1990 11:21 | 3 |
| A food processor is not as good as a blender for making this type of
sugar, a blender does a much better job. Keep in mind that you must
use HIGH speed for it.
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| 2789.5 | Another reason why substitutions will change things | SSGBPM::KENAH | I am the catalyst, not the poison | Wed Dec 12 1990 13:42 | 3 |
| Confectioner's sugar contains corn starch.
andrew
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| 2789.7 | Superfine Sugar? | KYOA::SHAIN | Jennifer Shain | Thu Dec 13 1990 08:32 | 9 |
| Will this blender trick make superfine sugar? I have a cake book with
most of the recipes calling for superfine sugar and haven't used it
much, but would love to. If this would work, how fine should the sugar
be?
Thanks for the help.
Jennifer
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| 2789.8 | | MR4DEC::MAHONEY | | Thu Dec 13 1990 10:51 | 5 |
| It depends on HOW FINE you want it... the longer you blend it the finer
it gets... I've baked for over 20 years without ever buying any special
sugar, always used the blender to get powder sugar.
By the way... I never heard that corn starch is included in powder
sugar!
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| 2789.9 | | PSW::WINALSKI | Careful with that VAX, Eugene | Thu Dec 13 1990 16:55 | 7 |
| RE: .8
That's the difference between powdered sugar and confectioner's sugar.
Confectioner's sugar does indeed have a small amount of cornstarch in it.
Read the label.
--PSW
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| 2789.10 | dextrose? | CADSYS::HECTOR::RICHARDSON | | Mon Dec 17 1990 15:20 | 5 |
| That's odd; I just opened a bag of confectioner's sugar (lots of baking
over the weekend), and it did NOT contain cornstarch, but it DID
contain dextrose (a sugar; regular table sugar is sucrose).
/Charlotte
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| 2789.11 | Satisfied, from Missouri. | NOVA::FISHER | Rdb/VMS Dinosaur | Mon Dec 17 1990 15:23 | 4 |
| I check my confectioner's this weekend and the label says "3%
cornstarch added to prevent caking."
ed
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| 2789.12 | sugar is sugar... | TYGON::WILDE | illegal possession of a GNU | Mon Jan 07 1991 14:55 | 11 |
| back to the original question....confectioner's (or powdered) sugar could be
used to make fudge, but you must adjust the quantity and I don't know the
exchange rate. A reliable cookbook should be able to offer a substitution
exchange rate or perhaps the local newspaper has a "cook's exchange" type
of column where you could pose the question. I do remember a version of
fudge that used powdered sugar, but haven't seen a recipe in years...
At any rate, the small amount of corn-starch added to SOME powdered sugar
brands (not all have it) is neglegible and only added to prevent caking....
dextrose is also sometimes used instead of sucrose because it doesn't cake
as easily. It all works the same.
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