On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:17:12 -0500, "MaryL"
> wrote:

> I used to put a couple of saltines in brown sugar if it was hard, and that
> was successful. I did not leave it in indefinitely--just long enough to
> soften it. I kept the brown sugar well wrapped, so it usually did not get
> hard.

Really? I live where brown sugar never hardens, but just an hour away
where my kids live... it does. I'd never put an apple in with sugar,
but I'd try a saltine just for the heck of it.

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