making your own brown sugar...

[sabrelvssammy]

i see on some of the posts that some of you make your own brown sugar with molasses and white sugar....

how do you do that ? just mix the two together or do you have to combine them using some 'other' process...?

[Contrary Housewife]

It's 1 TB of molasses to 1 cup of white sugar.

But since brown sugar is so cheap here, I don't bother. I'd only do it to save a trip to the store if I was out. The cost of sugar and molasses is more than the store brand brown sugar.

[rainbowgc]

Thanks, nice to know what to do in a cooking session without stopping to go to the store.

[Judi Dial]

It's easy, just stir it up, i use an old wooden chopstick in a glass measuring cup.

If it's too dark, add more sugar. If you want light brown sugar, then try adding 1 or 2 tsp, and see it it's the color you want. (A tablespoon is 3 teaspoons.)

IHTH!
Judi

[Persimmon Lace]

I keep molasses in my pantry all the time and I make my own brown sugar as I need it. Otherwise by the time I need some it is hard so it saves me money.

[Patty A]

Here is an easy step by step that may help. I would NOT use the electric mixer to mix it, its so easy to put in a zip lock bag and just work the molasses in to the sugar, then you don't even have any cleanup when you are done.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2210561_make-brown-sugar.html

[gardening momma]

If you just need enough for a single recipe, then you don't need to mix them together before you add them to your bowl. Just use the 1 Tbsp. molasses to 1 cup sugar ratio, and add each individually.

But if you want to make up a whole batch to keep in your cupboard, then you can mix it all together.

[Michelle]

I don't often have molasses on hand, and it *is* cheaper to buy the store brand of brown sugar. However, I have mixed them together before when I ran out of brown sugar and once when my brown sugar was as hard as a rock. Definitely saved time then.

[Thevail]

How serendipitously odd..they covered this on Alton Brown's "Good Eats" last night.