[cigalechanta]

for Brown sugar and cream of tartar?
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[ptegan]

What are you using the brown sugar for exactly?

[cigalechanta]

It's not for me. Someone who recently moved to France asked me if I knew. Also a substitute for allspice.
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[Erin]

Is she/he wanting a translation?
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"It's watery....and yet there's a smack of ham."

"It's hot ham water."

[cigalechanta]

No substitutes, Erin.
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[Rainey]

Sorry if I'm being stupid here. We've switched providers, we're experiencing havoc from the heavy rains, I've been out of the loop and I'm having too much trouble just going forward to go back.

Someone has a French friend who cannot get allspice? There isn't a French equivalent for the berries? It seems to me they'd be very simple to mail and would keep almost indefinitely before they were ground up. Meanwhile, a quick twirl in a coffee grinder would render them useable in a couple seconds.

[Alisa]

As an american, living in Paris, I have found substitutes or places to buy "everything"!

Light and dark brown sugar can be purchased at Naturalia, and other health food type stores. Allspice and cream of tartar can be purchased at Le Grande Epicerie de Paris, at Le Bon Marche, and at The Real Mc Coy in the 15th, and at Thanksgiving store. Thanksgiving Store has a web site.

good luck!

[cigalechanta]

She's not in Paris, alas, but the Auvergne.
But thanks for your responses, all.
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[Erin]

Well I know that brown sugar is basicly mix of sugar and molasses.
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"It's watery....and yet there's a smack of ham."

"It's hot ham water."

[swan]

but what on earth is cream of tartar?What does it do? I don't know it, but maybe it has a very different name in dutch.

[ptegan]

I don't know about Auvergne but in Paris you can get brown sugar pretty much everywhere and many different types too, depending on if it's for cakes, cooking or cocktails

[Rainey]

[Alisa]

When I arrived, to live, in France, I asked my French husband who is a great cook, what do you call cream of tartar in French? Since he had lived in the U.S. for eight years, I figured that he would know. Response: "I have no idea, and I have been wondering for years what that stuff is, in the kitchen." After searching Harrap's French/English dictionary, the web, and the brains of many french cooks, I am still under the impression that the french chef doesn't use the stuff. What is so wierd is that it's origin is from wine casks in France. My only suggestions are to a) have friends and relatives send some, b) find web sites that will send it to you, i.e. Thanksgiving Store in Paris.[/b]

[Alisa]

I can't seem to let this one go! After typing "what is cream of tartar called in French", in Google, I was able to locate the chemical name.

syn: cream of tartar, potassium hydrogen tartrate

Since you can only purchase Baking Soda, (the Arm & Hammer type) at pharmacies in France, perhaps you can purchase, potassium hydrogen tartrate, at pharmacies as well.

[Rainey]