How do I soften a 5 pound bag of hard sugar?
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Try putting it in the microwave at 15 second intervals.
Thank you this microwave trick worked
Sure worked for me! Thanks.
Put in a slice of bread in the bag of sugar let stay overnight
The microwave worked great!!!
I just did 30 seconds at a time, loosening it up with a butter knife in between, and dumping the loosened sugar out of the bag between intervals.
My hardened sugar is in a gallon glass jar......how to soften???
I chopped the sugar into chunks and put them in my food processor.It worked great. You could also put some fresh bread into the sugar placed in a plastic bag.
Having 6 children, I hardly ever ran into this problem but I have helped another mother with something like this.
We happened to be in a non-electrical vacation cabin so appliances were out of the question. We decided to try the old method: We placed the bag of sugar in another durable plastic bag and dropped/threw the bag on the floor several times. This worked well except there were still some chunks in the busted sugar bag (good thing we placed it in another bag!).
We then decided to try something even funnier. Placed the bag (in a bag) on the counter, placed a thin board on top and pounded it with her husbands hammer.
Actually, this worked very well and when our husbands returned (from fishing of course) they thought we had found a jug of moonshine because we were having so much fun.
We decided that maybe a hard 5 pound bag of sugar might be a good idea to keep around for those occasions when we really needed a fantastic stress reliever.
I was just reminiscing with my daughter about this incident and she gave me another suggestion that she had heard and tried.
Place the hardened sugar in a casserole dish with a cover and cook for 15-20 minutes in a 150-200 degree oven. After 15 minutes, tap it several times with a spoon. If the sugar starts to fall off in chunks, place it back in the oven with the heat turned off for about an hour.
We now try to store our sugar in a tight container with a slice of bread inside.
The apple method!
Cut an apple into quarters and remove the core. Place all of the slices on top of the sugar in. Seal and keep in a cool, dry place overnight.
Remove apple slices from the sugar. Use a fork or a spoon to loosen the granules of your sugar!
Place the block of sugar in a covered casserole in a 200 degree oven with a boiling pan of water. Boil the water prior to putting it in the oven.
the old fashioned way is to put a slice of bread into the container and seal well.. might take a day or two but the bread will be crunchy and the sugar soft !
The above all sound like good advice. So the only advice I can add is prevention for next time around, put some big marshmallows into the bag, I do that with my brown sugar and it has served me well.
You can use a blender or mixer to break up hard clumps. Add marshmallows to the bag to keep the sugar soft.
I know that you can soften brown sugar by microwaving in short intervals because I've done it, so my guess is that you can do the same for granulated white sugar.
Put a piece of bread in the container (air-tight is the best) and you'll never have hard brown sugar, again!
How to soften hard granulated sugar?
How to soften a 5 LB bag of sugar?
Put it in your microwave for a few seconds at a time until softened.
Just put it in the microwave for a few seconds unti it's softened.
I have a 10-lg bag of sugar that was in the deep freeze too long. Now it is hardened like a rock. How can I get it softened?
I keep my brown sugar in a small cannister size Tupperware, with nothing else in it. It stays soft for weeks.
Instead of breaking it up, you can use it by weight. Most baking recipes have enough wet ingredients (eggs, softened butter, milk etc) to break up the chunks with a good mixer. 1 cup of white sugar = 200 grams. If you have a kitchen scale handy, this is the easiest way to use up hard sugar. I bake a lot of cookies, and am often doubling or tripling the batch and it gets difficult to keep track of counting how much sugar, flour, etc.
1 c. white sugar (or loose brown) = 200g
1 c. packed brown sugar = 230g
1 c. white flour = 150g
1 c. confectionary sugar = 125g
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