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Whitworth's Demerera Sugar
by CheekyCharlie08
I've starting taking a bit more care when I make a cup of coffee since I was given my cafetierre and one thing I have done is swapped from normal sugar to demerera. I've been buying Whitworths because it's been the cheapest I've seen in the supermarket!
It's proper nice too! The granules are loads bigger than in a normal bag ... of white sugar but they dissolve just as easy when you add it to your coffee and it doesn't take shedloads of stirring like I thought it would.
This demerera sugar gives the coffee a delish flavour and doesn't just sweeten it like white sugar. It's a bit nutty and tastes gorgeous, it doesn't give my coffee that madly sweet taste that you get with white sugar and it's hard to describe the taste it actually DOES give the coffee but it's proper nice anyway and makes it taste like the wicked cups of coffee you get in a sit down Chinese.
I always use half a spoon more of this demerera sugar than I do when I'm using white sugar just to give it a bit more sweetness, you have to be a bit careful though because if you overdo it you can taste the flavour of the sugar over the coffee and you really want it to complement each other instead.
The taste of the sugar is sort of like treacle and that's the flavour that comes through into your coffee, it doesn't change the smell of the coffee much and that's a good thing!
I don't think demerera sugar goes all that well with flavoured coffee because it changes the taste too much, one of the coffees that come with my cafetierre was Creme Brulee flavour and this sugar goes proper nice with that one but when I put some into a cup of Orange flavoured coffee it didn't go as good because the sugar wrecked the fruity flavour.
Recommended.... delish and makes a cup of coffee taste LOADS more special!!!
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Whitworths Demerera Sugar Cubes
by CheekyCharlie08
We've always got these Whitworths Raw Cane Demerera Sugar Cubes in because my mum is proper fussy about her hot drinks and will only use brown sugar in coffee. She buys these because she doesn't drink that many hot drinks and cubes will keep better than granule sugar even if she makes the box last for over a month.
We always ... put ours in an airtight tin that is a special one for keeping sugar in, that's because this box doesn't seal up again once you've opened it and it's important to keep sugar out of extreme temperature and also dry.
A cube of this sugar is the equivalent of one level teaspoon of sugar so if you have one sugar you need to use one sugar cube, if you take 2 sugars you need 2 cubes and so on. I always add an extra one because I don't think brown sugar is as good at sweetening my drinks as white sugar.
These dissolve quick in the hot coffee, I think it's best to add them before the milk because they dissolve a lot quicker and you're not stood about waiting too long. I always stir the coffee with the spoon too because that helps make the sugar cubes dissolve a lot quicker.
I like the taste these sugar cubes give a normal cup of coffee. They don't just add sweetness but they also give the coffee a bit of a different flavour that is impossible to describe apart from that it rounds the coffee out more than white sugar.
A 500g box of these demarera sugar cubes costs about £1.20 and that's not bad value for us because like I said a box will last us for ages, if you use more brown sugar than we do though it would work out a lot more expensive than buying normal granule white sugar.
Recommended.
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Whitworths Demerera Sugar Cubes
by norton501
Being an avid absinthe drinker, I need sugar cubes (you pour the absinthe over a sugar cube).Whitworths are one of the few varieties of boxes of sugar cubes you will still see for sale in your average supermarket.
Whitworths Raw Cane Demerera Sugar Cubes sell for 500g for £1.05. Once opened the box will not re-seal so you ... will need some form of tin to keep these in. Sugar cubes in drinks is something of a lost art unfortunately, it looks great when someone uses a pair of tongs to put a cube of sugar into a drink. Tea, coffee... You get more of a measure of how much sugar you are using (a heaped teaspoon is hardly an accurate measure...) and the cubes dissolve well in liquid.
Demerera sugar is brown in colour and has a coarse texture due to its large crystals. It is now produced mainly in Mauritius after originating in Guyana.
It comes from pressed sugar cane which is steamed to form thick cane syrup. The syrup is dehydrated into golden brown crystals. It has a more creamy/ rich taste to other refined white sugars and is preferred in hot drnks and also cooking (the cubes are designed for hot drinks).
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