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Brown sugar
黃糖
Golden granulated sugar with a little molasses left in: the spoon of syrup over 豆腐花 and grass jelly, the brown version of 缽仔糕, the colour of 馬拉糕. Two Australian bags need telling apart: raw sugar (golden crystals, the everyday Australian sugar) is the nearest to Hong Kong 黃砂糖 and does the syrups and 缽仔糕; brown sugar (soft, darker, molasses-coated) is the colour 馬拉糕 wants and is the Australian bag for this dictionary's 紅糖. Ginger pots take slab sugar and clear pots rock sugar, not either of these.
Preparation
For a syrup, equal weights of sugar and water with a slice of ginger, boiled until dissolved.
Availability in Australia
Easy to find
Australian name · raw sugar (CSR); brown sugar
Where · Any supermarket sugar shelf
What to ask for · Raw sugar is nearest 黃砂糖 (syrups, 缽仔糕); brown sugar is soft and dark (馬拉糕)
Where · Any supermarket sugar shelf
What to ask for · Raw sugar is nearest 黃砂糖 (syrups, 缽仔糕); brown sugar is soft and dark (馬拉糕)
