Recipes

Chicken marinated overnight in orange juice, tomato paste, soy sauce, and brown sugar, then slow-cooked all day with mushrooms and mandarin oranges until fall-apart tender.

A Carolina mountain recipe for Amish Sugar Cookies.

- Stewed and Mashed Apples Especially during the late part of the 19th century and the early days of the 20th, sugar was often used in

Crockpot apple and brown sugar corned beef

A slow-cooked pork loin roast resting on a bed of quartered apples, basted with a brown sugar and ginger glaze and cooked low for 10–12 hours.

Apricot and Pistachio Tarte Tatin made with sugar, water and 12 apricots.

Soft, golden copycat Auntie Anne's pretzels dipped in a baking soda bath and baked until perfectly chewy — brushed with melted butter and sprinkled with coarse salt or cinnamon sugar.

Thick pork chops layered with sliced acorn squash and smothered in a brown sugar, butter, orange juice, and Kitchen Bouquet glaze — an autumn slow cooker classic.

Whole tart red apples cored and filled with brown sugar, golden raisins, and orange peel, topped with butter, then slow-cooked in an orange juice-infused bath.

Basil and Lime Sorbet made with wineglass water (about 5 ounces), wineglass sugar (equal in weight to the water) and 6 limes.

Celebrity chef's signature baby back ribs dry-rubbed and slow-smoked, then basted with a rich tomato-soy-brown sugar BBQ sauce.

New Orleans-style fried doughnuts dusted in powdered sugar, served with classic cafe au lait made from chicory coffee and hot milk.

Berry Blue Layer Cheesecake made with vanilla wafer crumbs, Arrowroot cookie crumbs and granulated sugar.

Berry Slump made with fresh or frozen berries (blueberries or raspberries), water and sugar.

Chewy, soft ginger cookies with cinnamon, cloves, and molasses — rolled in sugar and perfectly spiced for the holidays.

Copycat Black Eyed Pea restaurant baked squash casserole — tender yellow squash mashed with butter, sugar, egg, bread crumbs, and onion, baked until golden.

A sweet-tart syrup reduction of sugar, rice wine vinegar, and fresh blood orange juice — a versatile gastrique for drizzling over duck, pork, or seafood.

New Orleans-style beignets loaded with fresh blueberries in the dough, fried golden and dusted with powdered sugar.

blue cheese and brie quesadillas with a pear and

Flour tortillas filled with crumbled Maytag blue cheese and sliced Brie, pan-fried until golden, served with a warm brown sugar-pear compote and cinnamon-spiced walnuts.

A Carolina mountain recipe for About 2 cups of confectioners sugar.

Buckstar’s Sinful Mocha Chocolate Chip Muffins made with butter, white sugar and egg.

Tender buckwheat groats cooked in vanilla milk, folded with egg yolks, sugar, lemon zest, raisins, and stiff egg whites, baked until golden and served warm with cherry jam.

A French-style buttercream made by beating egg yolks with hot caramel syrup cooked to soft-ball stage, then whipping in butter and caramel sauce until silky and spreadable.