On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 18:42:46 -0400, "Steve Freides" >
wrote:

>Anyone used coconut sugar and care to comment? I bought organic coconut
>sugar at Whole Foods. We don't bake from scratch much and my main use
>for sugar is making simple syrup, for which I currently use organic
>sugar and turbinado sugar, both of which have a bit of molasses in them,
>the latter slightly more than the former.
>
>I'm wondering what simple syrup made with coconut sugar is going to be
>like, and I'll certainly give it a try - just curious to hear if anyone
>else uses this stuff, and why, and how.

I've used it to prime my beer when bottling, worked seemingly as well
as normal sugar and changed the flavour in a subtle but nice way.
Never used it for baking or syrups though.