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Your Complete Usage Guide for CSR Sugars and Syrups Your complete usage guide for CSR Sugars and Syrups CSR YOUR SUGAR EXPERTS For more than 160 years, CSR Sugar has been producing sugar of all varieties for Australians to cook with. Established in 1855 out of the need for a local source of sugar, today CSR Sugar still produces sugar at multiple sites around Australia. Sugar is a truly multi-tasking and flexible food service ingredient. It’s an important addition in so many pre-prepared foods. It not only makes food taste good, but it has unique properties that aid in food production. These include: • A bulking agent – contributing • A flavour enhancer – enhancing to the bulk or body of products the taste of sour fruits. in baked goods such as meringues. • A unique colour and flavour – • In fermentation – providing food on heating, sugar caramelises for yeast in breads and buns in to produce a desirable colour order to produce carbon dioxide and flavour (browning). to raise the dough. • Lowering freezing point – helps • A preservative – helping to produce fine crystal structure reduce the growth of bacteria, and product smoothness in ice- moulds and yeast to extend shelf cream and other frozen desserts. life such as in jams. • Raising boiling point – enables • An aid to body and viscosity a more concentrated sugar – in liquid and semi-liquid solution which is important products such as syrups and in candy manufacture. sweet sauces. A RANGE OF SUGARS AND SYRUPS TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS CSR PRODUCT DESCRIPTION IDEAL FOR CSR White Sugar Its subtle sweetness lets Cakes, sweetening fruit other flavours shine through. crumbles, tea, coffee and It’s also colourless, so sugar syrup for cocktails it won’t change the look of your food. CSR Caster Sugar A smaller crystal size Baking, pavlovas, than CSR Graded White Sugar. light sponge cakes It dissolves quickly and and dressings caramelises evenly. CSR Raw Sugar A free flowing graded larger Enhancing the flavour crystal size sugar that has a of hot drinks, baking syrup coating on each crystal, or as a crunchy topping giving it a golden straw colour on baked goods and rich flavour. CSR Brown & Dark Brown Sugars A blend of the dark sugar Balancing spicy, hot syrups from the refining and sour Indian or process and caster sugar. Asian dishes, caramels, It has a caramel colour and toppings and sauces a rich flavour. CSR Pure Icing Sugar A super fine grained white sugar Fondant confectionery & Soft Icing Mixture produced by graded crystal sugar. CSR Soft Icing Mixture has up to 5% starch added to prevent caking. CSR Demerara Sugar A unique texture that is Toppings on baked goods created by covering the sugar in a thin layer of molasses and crystallising in open pans, rather than in a vacuum, for a stronger caramel flavour. CSR Coffee Crystals Coffee crystals form for Deepening the taste a longer time, resulting of coffee in larger sugar crystals. CSR Golden Syrup A rich, dark blend of Adding moisture, colour cane syrups. and flavour during baking CSR Treacle A richer colour than golden Providing a strong syrup, and a stronger, slightly sweet flavour in baking, bitter flavour. confectionery and savoury recipes CSR Invert Syrup Properties of crystal inhibition Delivering a higher and retention of water, helps degree of sweetening to extend product shelf life. power than sucrose WHATEVER YOUR RECIPE OR TECHNIQUE THERE’S A SUGAR TO MATCH. CSR CSR WHITE CASTER SUGAR SUGAR USAGE USAGE Uniformly textured in The baker’s sugar. The fine, consistency, white sugar is regular sugar crystals dissolve ideal for cakes, sweetening and caramelise evenly, making fruit crumbles, tea, coffee CSR Caster Sugar an essential and also makes a delicious ingredient for the perfect sugar syrup for cocktails and pavlova, light sponge cakes cordials. CSR Graded White Sugar and dressings. is a high purity refined cane sugar (sucrose) with a uniform, CSR Caster Sugar is a high medium crystal size. purity refined cane sugar (sucrose) product with fine, Like other CSR White Crystal regular crystals. Like other CSR Sugars, CSR Graded White Sugar White Crystal Sugars, CSR Caster is conditioned to achieve Sugar is conditioned to achieve minimal moisture content. minimal moisture content. The The natural variability of crystals are separated by grading sugar crystal size is controlled rather than milling, to maintain by screening to remove both the crystal structure. This fine sugar large crystals and the majority will dissolve readily and mixes of the smaller crystals. consistently with other fine granular or powdered ingredients. STORAGE Standard Granulated Sugar should STORAGE be stored in dry areas preferably Caster Sugar should be stored avoiding large temperature in dry areas preferably avoiding variations and relative large temperature variations and humidity above 70%. relative humidity above 70%. SHELF LIFE SHELF LIFE Crystal sugar products have a Crystal sugar products have a shelf life in excess of 2 years useful life in excess of 2 years and thus do not require a “best and thus do not require a “best before” date. before” date. CSR RAW SUGAR USAGE CSR Raw Sugar is a free flowing, granulated sugar with a syrup coating on the crystals, which gives a golden straw colour and rich flavour. It is produced by dissolving, filtering and recrystallising the raw sugar received from the sugar mill. CSR Raw Sugar enhances the flavour of hot drinks and baking, or used as a topping it gives a golden crunch to muffins. CSR Raw Sugar is crystallised from natural cane syrups. It retains the natural colour and flavour of sugar cane syrup, while meeting the strict requirements for human consumption. STORAGE CSR Raw Sugar should be stored in dry areas, preferably avoiding high temperates and relative humidities above 70%. SHELF LIFE Crystal sugar products have a useful life in excess of 2 years and thus do not require a “best before” date. CSR CSR PURE ICING SOFT BROWN SUGAR & & DARK BROWN SOFT ICING SUGAR MIXTURE USAGE USAGE CSR Pure Icing Sugar is white CSR Soft Brown Sugar is sugar which has been ground in produced by blending the dark a mill to produce a fine powdered sugar syrups obtained during sugar. Used for lightly dusting the refining process with caster cakes and sweets and for creating sugar, resulting in a fine, smooth icing and glazes. Great soft, moist texture. It’s dark for sweetening cream fillings or caramel colour and unique rich anywhere a smooth, soft texture flavour make it suitable for is required in baking. The CSR both savoury and sweet recipes, Icing Sugar range is gluten free. particular caramels, toppings and sauces. To keep it free flowing and to prevent lumps forming, a small CSR Dark Brown Sugar with its amount of gluten free tapioca or deeper flavour can stand up to maize starch (up to 5%) is added and balance spicy, hot and sour to CSR Soft Icing Sugar. Indian or Asian dishes. SHELF LIFE STORAGE While this product may be stored CSR Soft Brown Sugar & Dark for up to 2 years, CSR Pure Brown Sugar should be stored Icing Sugar and CSR Soft Icing in dry areas preferably avoiding Mixture may cake when stored larger temperature variations in 15kg or 25kg bags. It is and relative humidities recommended that this product be above 70%. used within 30 days from the date of manufacture. SHELF LIFE Crystal sugar products have a useful life in excess of 2 years and thus do not require a “best before” date. CSR DEMERARA SUGAR & COFFEE CRYSTALS USAGE STORAGE CSR Demerara Sugar has CSR Coffee Sugar should be stored a unique texture that is in dry areas, preferably avoiding created by covering the sugar large temperature variations and in a thin layer of molasses relative humidity above 70%. and crystallising in open pans, rather than in a vacuum, for SHELF LIFE a stronger caramel flavour making CSR Crystal sugar products it ideal for use in toppings. have a useful life in excess of 2 years and thus do not require CSR Coffee Crystals form a “best before” date. for a longer period of time resulting in large sugar crystals. The crystals are spun to remove any excess syrup, leaving behind a thin coating, which gives a golden brown appearance. The unique size and flavour make this sugar type the perfect sweetener for coffee. The larger crystal dissolves more slowly, leaving behind a thin layer of syrup that enriches the coffee blend. CSR Coffee Sugar Crystals are also delicious for super crunchy toppings on biscuits and puddings. GOLDEN SYRUP THE PERFECT ADDITION TO SWEET AND SAVOURY DISHES CSR CSR GOLDEN TREACLE SYRUP USAGE USAGE CSR Golden Syrup is made using CSR Treacle is prepared by the sugar syrups removed during the same process as Golden Syrup the refining process and has a but is not decolourised, leaving high mineral and colour content. a darker colour and stronger, slightly bitter flavour. CSR Golden Syrup is ideal in baking, puddings and Treacle is used in baking and Anzac Biscuits. Also a great helps to increase the moisture addition to marinades to add content. With its deep colour and a sweet caramelised flavour slightly bitter taste, Treacle is to grilled meats. ideal for gingerbread, rich fruit cake or any recipe that calls for STORAGE Golden Syrup but where you’d like CSR Golden Syrup should be a bigger ‘hit’ of the molasses stored at an ambient temperature, flavour. although it may be warmed just prior to usage. STORAGE Treacle should be stored at SHELF LIFE ambient temperature, although Golden Syrup generally has it may be warmed just prior a useful life in excess of to usage. 2 years and thus does not require a “best before” date.
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