Guess what time it is? It's Sugar time!

Eileen at Umma's World (who seems to always have the sweetest posts) suggested in a comment that I should post about sugar, so here it is. Maybe I was getting a little too acidic. This picture below is purportedly of people putting yellow sugar on snow, BUT I do remember being warned about not eating yellow snow, so these people will NEVER pass the naughty or nice test for Santa...Guess what these people are doing? It was on the tip of your tongue, right? They are working with palm sugar! I never even heard of it and it looks a little scary...

These little works of art are sugar cubes for your coffee or tea...it sure would be hard for me to use them, as I'd rather frame them....

These are huge sugar cubes in a factory....

And here we have some colored sugar for which I have a money saving tip. Years ago I started making my own colored sugar for cookies, especially at Christmas. All you have to do is add the color you want and mix it. Since you are using very little liquid with the food dyes, it doesn't make the sugar clump or become liquidy...

Just in case you are getting overloaded with sugar at this point, here is a cool glass of vinegar that I forgot to post yesterday....Isn't this a pretty sugar coated cake? Now Angie @ Can You All Hear Me At the Back? is one blog you might want to visit for many reasons, but one would be that she actually makes these beautiful cakes!!...

Never saw this before but this is one method of getting maple sugar....

Isn't this just a nifty thing that I found about saving sugar from war times?.....

Yet some more valued info from our Internet...

"When Mary Poppins sang gleefully that “a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down” she was undoubtedly referring to sugar’s sweet taste.

There is more to sugar than sweet taste.

(There is? Say it isn't so!!!)

Here are some fun facts about sugar’s versatility.

Medicine – Sugar has a wide variety of physical properties that make it extremely useful in many medicines.

Sugar coatings are used to protect tablets from chipping

(Maybe this is what they did with m & m s to protect the chocolate from chipping and then discovered chocolate chips...is this great reasoning or what?)

Sugar has a role in “time-released” medicines

(It plays the part of Dr. Doolittle opposite Mr. Hyde)

Sugar is valued in cough syrups

(I must argue with this one as I once had a cough syrup with NO sugar while in Poland and it tasted so awful that I stopped coughing because I was afraid of the cough syrup...altho' maybe I would have valued the sugar had there been some!)

Sugar binds ingredients together

(So if love can't hold people together, maybe they ought to try sugar?)

Ethanol – In some countries they ferment sugar cane to make ethanol and use it as automobile fuel. Yes, in some countries you can pull up to the pump and fill your car with fermented sugar cane instead of gasoline.

(You can even do this in your own back yard...but I'll let you try it first and tell me about it.)

Sucrochemistry –This term is applied to scientific efforts to produce new and useful compounds by manipulating the sucrose molecule and combining it with other substances. For example, sugar esters, particularly combinations of sucrose with fatty acids, are used for surface coatings, detergents and paints. Sugar ester detergents are reported to be excellent in cleaning dirt, agriculture chemicals and bacteria from fruits and vegetables.

Miscellaneous Applications

Sugar is used to slow down the setting of cement.

(To speed it up, sprinkle liberally with salt.)

The glue industry uses sugar as an extender and as a vehicle to slow the setting process or to help keep the glue from drying too fast.

(If I coat my fingers with sugar, will it help stop the super glue I use from setting so well and staying on my fingers better than on the object I am gluing?)

Sugar plays a role in leather tanning and in the manufacture of paper ink and dyes.

(If it tans leather, just think what great results you could get using this instead of sun tan lotion and save money too.)

You can prolong the life of cut flowers by adding a teaspoon of sugar to the water in your vase.

For cut flowers, sugar can be absorbed through the stem where the plant uses it as food, which helps them live longer. "

(And they even die a happy death.)

A few sugary sweet jokes.....



Pass the Sugar Honey

This guy goes to a party without his wife. He hears this other guy say to his wife "Pass the sugar, Honey." and "Pass the honey, Sugar." His wife extols the virtues of this man's sweet words with his wife. He thinks this sort of speech is a good idea. So, the next morning when he and his wife are eating breakfast, he says to his wife, "Pass the bacon, Pig."

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Going To The Sugar Bowl

I was horrified to find my son eating out of the sugar bowl.
"Don't let me catch you doing that again!" I scolded.
He was willing but dubious. "I'll try, Mommy," he told me, "but you're so quiet sometimes."

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A level teaspoon of sugar

My father and I were shingling the roof and my young brother was the "Go For". Dad asked for a cup of coffee with a level teaspoon of sugar. Upon tasting the the coffee my father spit it out and asked "what in the world did you put in this"? My brother responded "Eleven teaspoons of sugar, just like you asked".

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Too Much Sugar

A fellow nurse at my hospital received a call from an anxious patient. "I'm diabetic and I'm afraid I've had too much sugar today." the caller said. "Are you light-headed?" my colleague asked. "No," the caller answered, "I'm a brunette."

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The card that just keeps on Giving

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you. But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty and so is your head.

~~~Thank You Father for the blessings of all the sweet people in our lives, please help us to stay sweet in return.