Demerara sugar
Sweetener
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Demerara is a partially refined cane sugar with large, hard, pale-amber crystals that stay dry and free-flowing and give an unmistakable crunch. Made by allowing raw cane sugar to crystallise coarsely and retaining a thin coating of its own molasses, it has a light golden colour and a mild caramel-and-toffee flavour far gentler than that of dark, damp muscovado.
Picking a good onedrag
Big, dry, sparkling crystalsCaked, dulled, damp through
Dry and lightly settledEveryday bestThe working bag: stirred into black coffee, rubbed onto meat, scattered on hot cereal, simmered into demerara syrup for rum drinks.
The crystals themselvesThe same large amber grain with a scatter of fines and broken crystals through it, still loose and bright
Tilt the bag and pourStill pours freely with a soft lump or two pressed together by the weight of the bag, falling apart at a touch
The pack and the labelSealed and full, or decanted into a jar whose lid actually shuts, marked as a light amber cane sugar