Dark brown sugar I have not found.
as per Slammer's post, you can find light brown sugar in the Asian shops here. The sugar in the photo comes from Thailand.
The sugar we bought yesterday comes from Mauritius and tastes as good as the stuff I tasted there on the island on one of the farms which produce it. The best so far.
You can find dark brown and light brown sugar at a rather cool cake decorating supplies specialist called Back-Art.ch
Swiss customers are amazed there's a difference to what they are familiar with and what real brown sugar does to a recipe. EFers have known this forever and if WiFi is at the base of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, real brown sugar comes next for the baker with taste.
Claimer: I'm totally associated with this business...
How much does yours cost per bag (or 100g)?
They have the dark brown stuff in the Gourmet shop in Neuchatel ( or they did last time I was in there which admittedly is quite a while ago).
Yes. I was reply to the fact that MF said you couldn't find it "in the shops" and that you have to order online. You can find the light brown sugar that Slammer posted it in the Asian stores. It is from Thailand. In Lausanne it is sold in two shops near the main train station.
The grocery store in Jelmoli sells both dark and light brown sugar. I think it's from the UK; the brand is Billington's. It's labeled as "muscovado sugar," and, to me, it tastes exactly the same as what is sold as light or dark brown sugar in the US. I use it all the time for things like chocolate chip cookies, etc. and have never noticed a difference between it (muscavado sugar) and what is sold as "brown sugar" in the US.
Again, Jelmoli sells both the dark and light ones. I've read before that, usually when a recipe calls for brown sugar, it usually implies light brown sugar, instead of dark. So I always buy the light one.
Here's a photo:
Here I thought there would be a good recipe and the first thing you need is "1 prepared pastry shell"......
An interesting subject as for years this has been a commodity hard to find here in Switzerland, demerara brown sugar.
Making a christmas or wedding cake it is a must or making home made toffee, the stuff that breaks your teeth.
So where to find the real thing, in Switzerland?
Good old Tate & Lyle as the white sugar is used in all of the best patisseries, not the raw beat sugar that you have in packets next to your coffee.
http://www.waitrose.com/shop/HeaderS...rch=GR&search=
I will try the stuff that is sold at Globus, in Lausanne many thanks for the tip.
People here know the price of a dentist...and avoid the teeth breaking stuff
This constant harping on about brown sugar really leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.
No, just no.....Slammer you have a lot to answer for with this thread!
Even Lidl here sells Demerara sugar. It's Fairtrade too:
That's raw sugar.. its not the same as "brown sugar".
I didn't write that it was brown sugar. I wrote that it was demerara sugar which is what the poster to whom I was replying
requested.
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