On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 2:29:26 PM UTC-10, Jinx the Minx wrote:
> > wrote:
> > On Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 3:35:48 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> On 2016-03-20 1:31 PM, notbob wrote:
> >>> Making some oaty-meal cookies. Calls fer 1/3 C brn sugar. Arghhh!
> >>>
> >>> What brn sugar I have is pretty caked up. So, I jes dumped a buncha
> >>> lumpy brn sugar into my large wire strainer and used the fine particles
> >>> that sifted through. I then tossed the reamaining brn sugar rocks in
> >>> da' trash. I'll buy some new stuff next week.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> You pitched it?? You could have put a piece of bread in with it and
> >> the sugar would have resurrected within a day or two.
> >
> > Or maybe one could just put it in the type of steamer with the holes near
> > the top, so nothing leaks out? (It looks like a double boiler from a
> > distance, for those who don't know.) I can't imagine what would go wrong
> > with that, unless you forget it for an hour and either it would get too
> > wet or the water would dry up and it would burn.
> >
> > Lenona.
> >
>
> I just stick mine in the microwave for a few seconds. Instantly useable.
> No waste.
>
> --
> jinx the minx

That's what I'd do. It seems so obvious. It makes me wish I had some rock hard brown sugar.

notbob wrote:
>jinxminx2 wrote:
>
>>I just stick mine in the microwave for a few seconds. Instantly useable.
>>No waste.
>
>I haven't heard that one. Now, I wish I still had those brn sugar
>rocks. I'd try all these no-fail suggestions.

Hardened brown sugar is terrific for making Rock & Rum.