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No brown sugar in the house, or the stuff you have is rock solid. What to do if you don't have time to deal?

If your soft brown sugar turns into a hard solid, follow some quick and easy directions to moisten it up again. Solidified brown sugar is not sugar "gone bad" - don't throw it out!

Bread is a miraculous thing. It's delicious, it gives you energy, it softens your cookies, and it can help you de-clump your brown sugar.

Simply put your sugar in a microwavable container (read: NOT plastic) and place a slice of bread on top. Seal the container and pop in the microwave for 15 seconds.

Voila. The moisture from the bread and the resulting steam will make the sugar softer and more pliable, allowing you to work on the clumps (as seen in the highly scientific "cookie osmosis" chart above).

via [lifehacker]

I know we've all done it. You're right in the middle of making something and you realize that you don't have a necessary ingredient. Well if that ingredient is brown sugar, you may be in luck.

If you happen to have granulated sugar and molasses, you can make brown sugar. I've never actually measured the amounts before, as I generally just add molasses until I like the results. But I think it'd be 1-2 tablespoons of molasses to a cup of sugar, if you feel you need measurements.

This can be a big help in a pinch. If you don't have any of these staples, well, I guess this wouldn't be much use to you. But you never know when a tip might come in handy.

What do you get when you combine 2,000 coconuts, 1.5 tons of brown sugar and half a ton of ground glutinous rice? The world's largest calamay.

The 2.5-ton sticky rice treat was recently unveiled in Candon City in the Philippines. It's the country's effort to topple the Guinness World Record for the largest sticky rice cake, which is currently held by the city of Niigata, Japan. To give some idea of the scale of this sugary treat consider that in an average day a calamay vendor uses some 55 pounds of glutinous rice. Oh, in case you're wondering, the one pictured above is not the Guinness contender.

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