On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 19:25:25 -0600, "Polly Esther"
> wrote:

> Well. Here's a new one for me. In Best of the Best Fast & Fabulous Party
> Foods and Appetizers by McKee and Moseley, I read that a substitute for one
> cup of brown sugar is one tablespoon molasses to one cup of white sugar. I
> cook mostly in tropical weather and find that 'real' brown sugar can go from
> workable to rocks in way less than a minute in this humidity. I'm going to
> try the substitute. It sounds reasonable. Pecan pie coming soon. Polly

I think that's a reasonable substitution for brown sugar when you're
making something like pecan pie. I've never tried it because brown
sugar never gets hard where I live, but I also know that's unusual.

Just learned this fact tonight: I live in one of only 5 places in the
world with a "Mediterranean climate" (and I'd like to know where the
other three are). When I look at the Wikipedia map, it looks like the
Mediterranean climate is clustered around the Mediterranean Sea (which
isn't odd)... and then there's us. Now that's odd... but hey, we're
out of step in a lot of other ways and unabashedly famous for it too.

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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.