What is found in cane sugar and how do these substances affect the body? Whether the product can be harmful to health and how does it manifest itself. How to use it in cooking. If you have a lot of cavities in your mouth, then it is better to refuse the product, since it accelerates the process of their destruction. Those who cannot resist and eat it will need to brush their teeth immediately.
Cane Sugar Recipes
It is an ideal ingredient for pancakes, pastries, cakes, pies, cookies. It is also used for the preparation of various waffles, biscuits, pancakes, rolls, muffins. It is relevant when it comes to various juices, yoghurts, ice cream, preserves, jams. On its basis, marinades for barbecue are wonderful. It is actively added when preserving and pickling vegetables, fruits, berries.
We offer you the following recipes with cane sugar
- Vegetarian muffins … To prepare them, mix organic whole wheat flour (1 tbsp.), Refined vegetable oil (half a glass), sugar (150 g). Then add homemade milk (200 ml) to the mass, salt to taste, baking soda quenched with vinegar (1.5 tsp). Next, knead the dough well, bringing it to a thick gruel without lumps. Then peel and chop 5 green apples to be added to the mixture. Now stir it again and leave it in a warm place for 20 minutes. During this time, preheat the oven, grease the muffin tins and fill them almost to the top with the dough. Then put everything in the oven for 20-30 minutes. When the baked goods are ready, wait for them to cool, place them on a plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
- Yogurt … First you need to bring high-fat homemade milk (2 L) to a boil. When it cools down, remove the foam that appears with a spoon and add the starter culture to it, which will need no more than 150 ml. Now wash and wipe dry half-liter jars, in which then put 3 tbsp. l. your favorite jam. After that, fill it with prepared milk and put it in a yogurt maker for 10 hours. After this time, remove the containers and leave them covered for 3 hours in the refrigerator.
- Apple pie … Combine refined vegetable oil (0.5 cups), eggs (2 pcs.), Sugar (100 g), flour (250 g) and slaked soda (1 tsp.). Now peel the apples (0.5 kg), cut them and mix with the dough. Next, place it on a greased baking dish. Then put it in a well-heated oven for 30 minutes. The same recipe can be used for a double boiler.
- Apricot jam … Wash, peel and pour 5 kg of apricots with water. Leave them for 3 hours, then drain the liquid and cover the fruit with sugar (2 kg). Then let them sit for 24 hours. The next morning, set them to simmer over low heat in a deep saucepan. Remember to stir the apricots every 10 to 20 minutes to avoid burning them. In total, the fruit needs to be cooked for about 2 hours. At this time, you should wash and sterilize cans with metal lids. When the jam has cooled down a little, fill it with clean containers, roll it up, turn it upside down and leave it under a blanket for 2 days. After that, the cans can be lowered into the basement.
- Halva … Fry the peeled sunflower seeds without oil. When they are cool, crush them into powder with a food processor or blender. Now sift the premium flour (half a cup), hold it in a dry frying pan for about 10 minutes and combine with the first ingredient. Grind the mixture again so that there are no lumps left in it. Next, pour sugar (180 g) with boiled water, bring to a boil, remove the foam, mix with vegetable sunflower oil (150 ml) and a mass of seeds and flour. Mash it well with a fork and transfer to glass containers, which then need to be sent to the refrigerator for 4 hours. If you want the halva not to be crumbly, then press it down on top with a press.
- Compote … Boil water, which will need no more than 5 liters per 1 kg of fruit. Wash cherries (300 g), apples (400 g), apricots (300 g), chop them and place in a saucepan with liquid. After 5 minutes, add sugar, which requires about 170 ml for 3 liters of water. After that, leave the compote on low heat for half an hour.
Important! Since cane sugar is brown, it doesn't look very appetizing.
Interesting facts about cane sugar
The leaders in the export of this product are Brazil, the Canary Islands, Sri Lanka, China, India. It is not as sweet as classic beetroot and less harmful. In Europe, they first learned about it even before our era. Sugar gained immense popularity during the Crusades, but gradually it began to fade. Its sales account for about 35% of all offers, the rest of the market is occupied by beetroot product.
Cane sugar is about 4 times more expensive than ordinary sugar, so its sales in the CIS are low. It is widely popular only among those leading a healthy lifestyle. On the Internet, it can be bought by weight, and in the store it is mainly packaged in packs of 1 kg. Manufacturers also offer the product in the form of refined sugar (whole pieces). Often on the market you can find a fake in the form of ordinary beet sugar. In order to pass it off as a reed version, it simply does not get cleaned; as a result, the color turns out to be brown. For this purpose, manufacturers also quite often resort to staining it with special compounds. The glycemic index of this product is 55 units, and the white analogue is 77. Therefore, it is safer for patients with diabetes mellitus.
It can be stored at home for over a year. But for this, high humidity should be excluded, the temperature should be above + 25 ° C and below 0 ° C. It needs containers for cereals.
The reed, which serves as the original product, is harvested by hand. Then it is dried, crushed, juice is squeezed out of it, which is mixed with water. Then the mixture is cleaned with slaked lime, which allows you to remove all enzymes from it. The resulting liquid syrup is evaporated in a special container, resulting in the formation of crystals (molasses). After that, they are put under the press.
There are three types of cane sugar available on the market. The first is Demerara, which is brownish-golden in color and can be refined. Another is muscovado, which is the sweetest because of the highest molasses content. If the crystals are large, then this is the "Turbinado" variety, characterized by a pungent and strong odor.
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Considering all the existing contraindications for cane sugar, it is difficult to call it a completely safe product. In small quantities, it can undoubtedly be included in the menu, replacing the classic, white counterpart. But it is still not worth getting carried away with it, because the health of the teeth, and not only them, is much more important than various sweets.
