Demerara sugar

Sucre demerara

What it is

Demerara is a river in what is now Guyana, and almost no demerara sugar has come from there for a long time - most of it is milled in Mauritius. The word survives as a crystal specification rather than an origin.

In the kitchen

Buy it for what the crystal does, not for molasses it barely has: scattered on a shortbread lid or a crumble it stays crunchy right through the oven. Creamed into a cake batter it simply dissolves, and you have paid extra for white sugar.

Goes with

Butter Dark rum Oats Coffee Cream Cinnamon

Same species

Cane vinegar Chinese rock sugar Dark rum Golden syrup Icing sugar Invert sugar

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