For swirling into a warm bowl of oatmeal, mixing into a batch of extra chewy chocolate chip cookies, or infusing savory sauces and marinades with rich, caramel sweetness, brown sugar is a pantry ...

Brown sugar doesn’t always behave. One day it’s perfectly soft and scoopable; the next, it’s a solid, unyielding block. Why does this happen, and how should you store brown sugar to avoid hard lumps?

Too late and already have a clump-filled supply? We also have pro tips for how to conquer and soften brown sugar clumps after they happen. In the United States we use sugar from two primary sources: ...

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