Homemade Brown Sugar

Mmmmm, brown sugar.  Just the words conjure images of baked deliciousness.  So many recipes use this wonderful brown sweetness – from bacon to desserts to chicken.  Try to imagine your favorite chocolate chip cookies without it.  Horrifying!  But what exactly is brown sugar?  I found a couple interesting links.  One, from www.ehow.com states that it’s “made from sugar cane or sugar beets…cut and squeezed for their juice, which is boiled until it thickens to molasses.”¹  It is then stripped and dried.  Foodtimeline.org is another site that always has such interesting information as well.

General Tso’s Chicken

Of all the recipes I have tried, the one I return to regularly is my adaptation for General Tso’s Chicken.  I took for granted that this delicious concoction would be available wherever I went.  After relocating to California I could not find a version of the dish I remembered and previously enjoyed.