Demerara sugar
Cane sugar stopped part-way through refining, so it keeps some of its own molasses: large golden crystals, tasting faintly of caramel. Sold in Sweden as råsocker.
It is the sugar an aged-spirit drink asks for by name - rum and whiskey have the same molasses and barrel notes to meet it with, where white sugar would only sweeten. Usually taken as a 2:1 syrup rather than as crystals, which dissolve slowly and gritty.
Not the same thing as brown sugar (Swedish farinsocker), which is refined white sugar with molasses stirred back in.
- Diet
- Vegan
- Taste
Used in
Irish CoffeeHot sweetened coffee and whiskey under a float of cold cream