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Using up sugar

Hi, Hoping someone can come up with a use for 2 x 500g boxes of Dark Muscovado sugar, which I unearthed at the back of a cupboard this morning. They are brick hard, so would maybe need to use a hammer and chisel to break up, but I can't just throw them out.

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  • Ginger cake or Parkin.
  • Athome1
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    Toffee or fudge.
  • Great for making onion Chutney!

    Also I made a lovely stick sauce for pork with brown sugar...!
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  • Seakay
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    If you put the sugar in a bowl with a damp teatowel over the top (no touching the sugar, just the edges of the bowl) and leave overnight then the sugar should soften up nicely.
    Going hard is not a sign of going off, it just means that the sugar wasn't stored in a totally airtight place. If you don't really want to use the sugar at the moment then it will store quite safely either dried out or rehumidified until you need it.
  • Seakay - Thank you, will do that and use one of the boxes tomorrow to make some nice sweet fudge, as suggested by Athorne1 (thanks), and a lovely ginger cake (thanks to BitterAndTwisted for that idea) Now off to find a good fudge recipe!
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