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Glad to see you stop by! This is a collection of recipes I have developed, received from friends or was inspired by and altered somehow. While I try to post all food photos I just cannot help but share some of my Vintage clippings with you from my Gran's recipe drawer, my great Gran's tin and of course my Mum's treasure trove of her Gran's lovely publications all kept so prim, not to mention the cache my Mum also had and even mine too! They are all regularly used recipes, loved by my family, friends, and now you my treasured readers Enjoy!

Monday, April 18, 2011

Let's take processed foods down a notch and bake from scratch

Various Names For Sugar Commonly Found in Processed Foods: This is scary .. really

* Amaske (brown rice)
* Barley malt (grain)
* Beet sugar (root)
* Brown rice syrup (grain)
* Brown sugar
* Cane juice
* Confectioners’ sugar
* Corn sweetener (grain)
* Corn syrup (grain)
* Date sugar (fruit)
* Dextrose
* Fructooliosaccharides (fruit)
* Fructose (fruit)
* Fruit juice concentrate (fruit)
* Galactose
* Glucose
* Granulated sugar
* High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) — If you were to avoid only one sugar, HFCS would be the one! According to physicians Mehmet Oz and Michael Roisen, high-fructose corn syrup is the worst sweetener added to our food supply.
* Honey (natural)
* Juice concentrate
* Lactose
* Licorice Root
* Maltodextrin (corn syrup solids)
* Malted barley (grain)
* Maltose
* Maple sugar (natural sweetener)
* Molasses (natural sweetener)
* Powdered sugar
* Rice Syrup & Yinni Syrup
* Raisin juice (fruit)
* Raisin syrup (fruit)
* Raw sugar
* Sorghum syrup
* Stevia—Stevia is really a healthy sweetener. It’s an herbal sweetener that’s two to three hundred times sweeter than sugar and no calories. It’s presently sold in the U.S. as a dietary supplement, although it has been used as a sweetener for hundreds of years in Latin America, Japan, and Asia and now in Europe.
* Sucanat
* Sucrose
* Sugar cane
* Turbinado sugar
* White sugar

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