On 11/7/2013 3:25 PM, 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 tried this when I was a kid. It sounds like a good idea but the
results aren't that convincing. It is, however, better than nothing.
Making a pecan pie would be a good idea. My guess is that it would taste
like a pecan pie made with molasses which would probably still be pretty
damn tasty.