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The quantities are all Tasmanian?
Why is North America still using the imperial system when the rest of the world has already gone metric?
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> imperial system
you said it.
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We call it it castor sugar here, not caster sugar.
Maybe it's made from beaver droppings. Goes good in your kopi luwak.
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You've got me, Dale. Just the way they make it, I guess. Jo (who is British) and I exchanged some recipes, which led to these couple of very startling (to me) questions:
She: what is shortening?
Me: what is caster sugar?
Interesting, trying to explain something when there is no (or little) common frame of reference. I would list my explanation of shortening as a deferred success.
I've heard of shortening bread from the song, of course. I just assumed it was American for shortbread. So what is it, then?
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> shortening
oleomargerine. crisco. lard.
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We call it it castor sugar here, not caster sugar.
The spelling castor sugar used to be the prevailing one, but caster sugar seems to be more usual now, perhaps because it is used by some sugar manufacturers on their packaging.
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/castorsugar?view=uk
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Shortening is called shortening because it is a semisolid edible fat used to shorten baked goods. To shorten means to introduce fats to flours (e.g. pastry dough) thereby preventing the cohesion of the molecules of wheat gluten strands and thereby produces baked goods which are light, tender and flaky. Lard is the best shortener in the Universe but is politically incorrect.
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We call it it castor sugar here, not caster sugar.
The spelling castor sugar used to be the prevailing one, but caster sugar seems to be more usual now, perhaps because it is used by some sugar manufacturers on their packaging.
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/castorsugar?view=uk
Well, I had hoped you would have noticed that I said we call it castor sugar HERE. What others call it, or what the most common spelling is, has no particular relevance to my specific comment.
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Max, Max, I was not disputing in any way, shape, or form that it is called castor sugar in New Zealand. I simply quoted your remarks because they mentioned both spellings. I had always assumed that caster sugar was a miss-spelling by people who do not use it or even know what it is.
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