Brown Sugar from Pantry Staples

If you have been hanging out, snooping my recipe book for a while, you know that I am all about that capsule kitchen, which means that certain items which are pantry staples for others, are just an additional bit of recipe for me. Such as brown sugar.

If I need 1 cup brown sugar, I mix 1 cup of regular white sugar with 1 tbsp molasses (or dark Karo syrup, depending on which is cheapest #frugal) and then use the result in the recipe.

Here are some equivalents I've worked out over the course of many bakings and cookings, so that you don't have to do ratio math.

A quick note is that it is a challenge to get the molasses or Karo syrup out of the measuring spoon, so I recommend having clean, freshly washed hands and then scrubbing the syrup out with sugar using the same technique that back country backpackers use to do a sand-wash of their spoons. Except this time you want to keep the gritty, sticky sugar into your bowl.

Also, the best way to incorporate the molasses or Karo is with clean, freshly washed hands and just scrunch and scrunch in sensory play. With my long nails, exam gloves go a long way to keeping sugar from hiding out under my nails.