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Default softening brown sugar

On 27/03/2013 9:54 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:

>>> I keep my brown sugar in a qt
>>> mayo jar and add a couple of prunes to keep it moistened like in a
>>> tobacco humidor... many years ago I smoked a pipe and used dried fruit
>>> in my humidor.
>>>

>> Tupperware with an old piece of bread works fine for me.

>
> Huh... you just got done announcing how brown sugar at your house
> doesn't stay around long enough to harden.
>

If I leave brown sugar in a sugar bowl in my house in the winter it
turns into a solid lump within a few days.