Comments on: Making Powdered Sugar From Granulated Sugar http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/ About finding balance in your life, connecting with who you are, and creating a lifestyle where you wake up each morning eagerly anticipating the day ahead. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:29:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Helena http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-112204 Helena http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-112204 I've been making my own powdered sugar since I came to USA in 1986! In Europe we had it without cornstarch! When I first bought powdered sugar here, I thought something was wrong with it! I hated it. Back home the sugar got hard at times but it was easy to let it go through the sifter, break any hard pieces. I still don't understant why they don't offer sugar without the starch. I’ve been making my own powdered sugar since I came to USA in 1986!
In Europe we had it without cornstarch!
When I first bought powdered sugar here, I thought something was wrong with it! I hated it.
Back home the sugar got hard at times but it was easy to let it go through the sifter, break any hard pieces.
I still don’t understant why they don’t offer sugar without the starch.

]]> By: Carolyn http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-92189 Carolyn http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-92189 Thank you so much for this article. A number a years ago I also started finding my recipes for frosting didn't taste right. Finally figured out cornstarch was the problem--they didn't used to put it in, and you often had to put it through the flour sifter before you used it. I'd do that anytime instead of having the crummy tasting frosting. Will try this tonight!! Thank you so much for this article. A number a years ago I also started finding my recipes for frosting didn’t taste right. Finally figured out cornstarch was the problem–they didn’t used to put it in, and you often had to put it through the flour sifter before you used it. I’d do that anytime instead of having the crummy tasting frosting. Will try this tonight!!

]]> By: April http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-85257 April http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-85257 Every time I taste my frostings and glazes I am never happy with that "off" flavor. And it's a taste most others don't notice! I am so glad I'm not the only one. I will definitely try this some time. Thanks! Every time I taste my frostings and glazes I am never happy with that “off” flavor. And it’s a taste most others don’t notice! I am so glad I’m not the only one. I will definitely try this some time. Thanks!

]]> By: Alex http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-71605 Alex http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-71605 Helped immensely, complete life saver!! Helped immensely, complete life saver!!

]]> By: Chantal C.B. http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-66452 Chantal C.B. http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-66452 Dear Shirly.Thank you SO much i used my blender and MIRACLE, i love you you save my cake.C.B Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Dear Shirly.Thank you SO much i used my blender and MIRACLE, i love you you save my cake.C.B Winnipeg Manitoba Canada.

]]> By: Beryl Frances http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-63165 Beryl Frances http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-63165 I have very much enjoyed your site today, thankyou. I learned to cook on an open coal fire oven in the 50's when I live with my grandmother in Yorkshire, England. Many folk had only this kind of oven then. Ours was large and had 2 ovens and a water heater with tap, plus a hot shelf above the fire, which was used for warming and re-heating food. We used to cook vegetables on a iron trivet over the coals, and I once burned a hole through the pan because I went out to play and forgot,never forgot the wrath of my Gran though... I have very much enjoyed your site today, thankyou. I learned to cook on an open coal fire oven in the 50′s when I live with my grandmother in Yorkshire, England. Many folk had only this kind of oven then. Ours was large and had 2 ovens and a water heater with tap, plus a hot shelf above the fire, which was used for warming and re-heating food. We used to cook vegetables on a iron trivet over the coals, and I once burned a hole through the pan because I went out to play and forgot,never forgot the wrath of my Gran though…

]]> By: Cheryl L. T. http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-62462 Cheryl L. T. http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-62462 Thanks for this information! For the past few years I haven't made powdered sugar frosting because it always tasted like pencils. Yes, pencils - like when you hold a pencil with your teethe. I'm going to taste corn starch now to see if that's where the pencil taste comes form. Thanks again! Thanks for this information! For the past few years I haven’t made powdered sugar frosting because it always tasted like pencils. Yes, pencils – like when you hold a pencil with your teethe. I’m going to taste corn starch now to see if that’s where the pencil taste comes form. Thanks again!

]]> By: AS http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-54789 AS http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-54789 I too dislike the taste of powdered sugar, and have used the blender method successfully. Years ago in an old cookbook I saw an article that said if you cook the icing in a double boiler for at least 15 minutes, it will cancel out the taste of the cornstarch. I have used this method ever since and it works beautifully. I too dislike the taste of powdered sugar, and have used the blender method successfully. Years ago in an old cookbook I saw an article that said if you cook the icing in a double boiler for at least 15 minutes, it will cancel out the taste of the cornstarch. I have used this method ever since and it works beautifully.

]]> By: Zoe http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-54106 Zoe http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-54106 Wow!!! Thank you so very much! I cannot wait to. Try this! I thought I was the only one who thinks the taste of commercial confectioners sugar is, well, awful! I LOVE sweets, but have been unsatisfied with the flavors of my great great great aunt's wonderful recipe for years! I clearly remember the full flavors of all her treats from my childhood, but everything now tastes awful. After narrowing the culprit down to the powdered sugar, I went in search of a better quility and hopefully old fashioned tasting one. All I received was funny looks from owners and employees of many baking shoppes. I just can't thank you enough! Although, I think I may need to hide my bathroom scale for a while after this! :) Wow!!! Thank you so very much! I cannot wait to. Try this! I thought I was the only one who thinks the taste of commercial confectioners sugar is, well, awful! I LOVE sweets, but have been unsatisfied with the flavors of my great great great aunt’s wonderful recipe for years! I clearly remember the full flavors of all her treats from my childhood, but everything now tastes awful.

After narrowing the culprit down to the powdered sugar, I went in search of a better quility and hopefully old fashioned tasting one. All I received was funny looks from owners and employees of many baking shoppes.

I just can’t thank you enough! Although, I think I may need to hide my bathroom scale for a while after this! :)

]]> By: Tracy http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-48686 Tracy http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/making-powdered-sugar-from-granulated-sugar/#comment-48686 Thank you! I have issues with corn and find that powdered sugar tends to make me quite ill. This will make things so much easier for me and knowing you tried the food processor first and it didn't work saves me the trouble.:) Thank you! I have issues with corn and find that powdered sugar tends to make me quite ill. This will make things so much easier for me and knowing you tried the food processor first and it didn’t work saves me the trouble.:)

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