Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfc.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaero!pesnta!amd!dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: Ingredient isomorphisms in US Message-ID: <272@ptsfc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 13:51:18 EST Article-I.D.: ptsfc.272 Posted: Fri Jan 25 13:51:18 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Jan-85 22:55:00 EST References: <2148@uw-june> Reply-To: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 16 >Could anyone out there tell me what the equivilants to castor sugar and >cornflour are in this country? castor (sometimes called caster) sugar is equivalent to regular granulated sugar in the US. British *regular* sugar is much coarser than here. icing sugar is confectioner's sugar, and demerara sugar is brown sugar. cornflour is corn starch. is treacle equivalent to molasses - anyone know??? -- rod williams ------------------------------------------- [decvax!decwrl!amdcad!dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw]