18 thoughts on “Home Preparedness Means Home-Produced Sugar. Of Course.”

1. So is “Home-Produced Sugar” a particularly implausible brand name, a general term for sugar produced locally, or literally sugar produced in the houswife’s own home? I’m thinking one of the latter two, but I’m not sure which.

2. Ah, never mind. Didn’t read the last sentence carefully. Apparently it means locally-grown sugar.

3. Yup. Mormon Corridor sugar, produced from beets grown by Mormon farmers and processed in Mormon-owned plants.

4. At least it avoids the whole U&I/White Satin issue.

5. True dat.

   (I’m afraid I offended you, Grant, and maybe some others with ties to White Satin. It was unintentional — I only meant to joke about how unexpected it was to see another company advertising in a place that had only ever carried U&I ads. Sorry.)

6. No problem, Ardis. I’m not offended. I was only sticking up for my beet-farming cousins. And they don’t even like me that much because of my politics. And I keep trying to convince my wife not to by C&H, but it does no good. So I’ve basically lost the sugar wars on numerous fronts.

7. Well, as long as they keep serving you cake, or whatever your weakness is, you’ve got the best end of the sugar deal anyway.

8. My Mom grew up on beet farms in North Dakota and Montana. They seemed to be in every meal in our home. I grew to hate beets. While I do eat sugar, if I think about it coming from beets, I almost want to hurl.

   YUCK!!!!

   In my house, I allow sugar. Never beets.

9. Mmm mm! I know what I’m having for supper tonight:

   HARVARD BEETS

   Drain, reserving liquid, contents of one 15-oz. can of diced beets.

   Mix together in saucepan:

   2 tblsp. sugar
   1 tblsp. cornstarch
   1/2 tsp. salt
   few grains pepper

   Stir in:

   3/4 cup reserved beet liquid
   3 tblsp. vinegar

   Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Add beets and 2 tblsp. butter or margarine. Again bring to a boil, stirring gently and constantly. Simmer 8 to 10 minutes.

   Yield: 4 to 6 servings

10. You need to moderate the comments better, Ardis.

    Oh, wait, that was your own comment …

    Darn.

    :p

11. :p

    Life would be sweeter if you sucked on a sugar cube. Look at the Recent Comments box — there are plenty of sugar cubes there at the moment.

12. It’s just that I loathe beets so much.

13. Though it’s true a lot of folks tell me I look like I got sucking on a lemon, and my face froze that way.

14. Just think how much more pleasure I get out of life, liking beets, than you get out of loathing them.

15. Touche.

16. I don’t think we’re thinking about the same beets, here.

17. Well, no, but RAMEUMPTOM STARTED IT!

18. Now you’ve got me wondering if the sugar I bought today to make raspberry jam is made from beets. Never thought of that before. There is a sugar beet processing plant about 30 miles down the road from where I live…

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