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Is there a possible substitute for sugar in creamed butter?
What you'll want to look at are cake recipes from Japan or Taiwan, since they have adapted traditional French techniques for the usually less-sweet East Asian palette.
One of the substitions that ends ...
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Wrong ingredient order for dried cranberries?
The ingredients reference the, well, ingredients. They are listed in the order of what goes into the product. So, they start out with more cranberries than sugar.
The nutrition information references ...
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Can I rehydrate fish in sugary mixture?
Well, that's an interesting combination. I wish you joy of it.
It'll be difficult to significantly sweeten the stockfish while simultaneously rehydrating it; a saturated sugar solution will take days ...
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What effect does fat and sugar have on homemade bread?
Adding fat to bread dough makes it softer and makes it stay moist for longer. The first effect, a more tender crumb, is a result of fat coating gluten molecules and preventing them from forming long ...
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US food label of organic lemon juice
According to the USDA, one teaspoon of lemon juice has around 1 calorie and .1 grams of sugar. FDA regulations allow listing anything under 5 calories per serving as "zero calories" and less ...
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Is there a possible substitute for sugar in creamed butter?
Cake recipes are often quite finely balanced between flour, liquids, fat and sugar ratios, and if you change the recipe too much, you risk failure. I'm a keen home baker, but I have had my share of ...
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Is there a possible substitute for sugar in creamed butter?
They are a bit of a pain to find, at least in my area, but sugars other than sucrose that are not as sweet would be one approach that could work. The most common sources I'm aware of tend to be home-...
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Can I rehydrate fish in sugary mixture?
As a note - From a biological perspective for water to diffuse into a tissue like your salt fish there needs to be more water present than salt (essentially). This is something called osmosis, where ...
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Does food containing sugar become uneatable due to chemical changes?
Either your memory deceives you or someone else did.
Sugar by itself does not degrade into anything toxic or otherwise inedible. On the contrary, sugars can preserve food nearly as well as salt or ...
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US food label of organic lemon juice
Just checking from wikipedia lemons have around 2.5g of sugar per 100g and 121 kJ or 29 kcal per 100g. I assume the numbers for lemon juice are quite similar.
This is quite low and lemon juice is ...
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Using osmotolerant yeast in regular bread
I found this site from the UK with many reviews of SAF gold (osmotolernat) yeast, quite a few of which commented to the effect that use of the gold yeast worked well for normal or non-sweet breads and ...
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Does using less sugar fundamentally impact how a cake or pie comes out other than sweetness?
The general answer is yes, in baked goods sugar does more than just add sweetness. Via the Maillard reaction it will contribute to browning and add a more complex flavor than just sweetness in the ...
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Does food containing sugar become uneatable due to chemical changes?
Well, there's two questions there: does sugar spontaneously transform into something else over time, and if so, is that something else unhealthy.
The only normal change I know of that sugar undergoes ...
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How do you prepare liquids with a high sugar content into black rectangles?
As mentioned in a comment, this question is a bit ambiguous. However, there are a few things that might get you going in the correct direction.
My first assumption from your question is that you are ...
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Does using less sugar fundamentally impact how a cake or pie comes out other than sweetness?
Sugar tends to create a more "crumbly" texture by breaking up the gluten in a dough, preventing it from becoming elastic. That is likely the source of your issue.
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