"wff_ng_7" > wrote in message
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> "Vox Humana" > wrote:
> > I can remember when brown sugar and confectioner's
> > sugar came in one pound cardboard boxes lined with waxed paper bags. I
> > did
> > have problems with lumps then, but it has been years since brown sugar
was
> > packaged like that.
>
> Gee, it still comes that way here! Perhaps it was a plastic rather than
> waxed paper bag inside the cardboard box, but it certainly wasn't
> resealable.
>
> I store my brown sugar in a plastic canister that one local supermarket
> chain sells their store brand shortening in. Just the same size as the
> Crisco cardboard canisters, and very useful for storing other things when
> the shortening is gone.

That's a great tip.