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wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 15051 Location: East Midlands
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 05 12:30 pm Post subject: Sugar |
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This might be better in chat - it's going to start as a bit of a rant anyway!
Why must manufactuers put so much sugar in things? I loathe oversugared readymade cakes and things, and never buy them anymore, but jam is always far too sweet, and loads of savoury things have added sugar.
As I make more and more things myself, I'm reducing the sugar in recipes, but so many of them still oversweeten things. The breadmaker said to put sugar in the bread, but I never do (on the advice of the flour producer), and the bread is fine. I halved the sugar in my jams, and they are much nicer and set fine, I reduce sugar in lemon curd, and improved the flavour no end. Yesterday I made Nigella's Chocolate, chilli and cinnamon pudding, and it was so overwhelmingly sweet, I couldn't eat it - you couldn't taste anything in it except sugar and chocolate. And mass produced chocolate is vile - full of sugar and vegatable fat. Proper chocolate is much less sweet, and nicer as far as I'm concerned. My guests all had two helpings of pud, so maybe I just don't have a sweet tooth!
Ok, rant over - what do you reduce the sugar in and by how much - or is it just me scrawling all over my recipe books?! What really needs the sugar and have you had any disasters with messing about with the quantites in recipes? |
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