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[MollyBloom]

What is this in Korean and where can I get it ...I'd rather not go to Hannam Market

[moosehead]

hmmm I'd like some of that powered sugar myself

watcha cookin' ??

[Straphanger]

[crazy_arcade]

TESCO/Homeplus in the baking section.

Korean word is "sugar powder"

[Ya-ta Boy]

Mine comes in a yellow cellophane bag, 110g. Label: Mix & Bake (in red) and 슈가파우더(in black). Baking section. I got mine at E-Mart. All the other Mix & Bake products were in red bags.

[MollyBloom]

[sojourner1]

I too wanted this, but couldn't find any. I knew they must have it to make icing unless they're making it with something else such as shortening, starch, and liquid sugar.

I wanted to make peanut butter cups for I have no Reese's and now I can. Thank you. I only know how to make them from when I was a little kid the government gave us lots of peanut butter and other commodities, but we didn't have money to buy candy nor pay our bills. I was turned onto Reese's after selling lost golf balls one day at the age of 9. Best mass produced candy money can buy. The Amish version is terrific too made just like in the days way before there were Reese's, but they tend to use too much sugar in getting the PB to go further.

Powdered sugar in the peanut butter, rolled into balls, and dipped into melted chocolate or almond bark is the bomb. Big bags of powdered sugar, 5 pound cans of PB, and big blocks of chocolate were to be had for next to nothing 20 years ago or more in the land of milk and honey. They had so much food they were practically giving it away. No one went without, not even the poorest of the poor.

[MollyBloom]

Just to let everyone know, I read that you can just grind granulated sugar into powered sugar, say in a blender of coffee grinder. I just did it and it worked out well. Be sure only to do one cup at a time or else it will be congested. Just pulse it until you get the desired texture.

[bangbayed]

Bangsan market near Dongdaemun in Seoul:

http://www.seouleats.com/2008/01/bangsan-market.html

BTW, I generally dislike large avatars, but you can keep yours, Molly.

[blurgalurgalurga]

I was talking to the awesome Austrian deli owner in Itaewon (the Mieli Deli--grand stuff all around), and he says that the confectioner's sugar available here inevitably has starch in it. So, he mills his own powder sugar by putting white sugar in a in a coffee grinder.
I guess it probably wouldn't matter if you're just making frosting, though, if you used the starchy stuff.

[MollyBloom]

[Countrygirl]

Thanks for the tip. Now I can make proper oliebollen.

By the way, your avatar is perfect and adds a little class to this site. I also like Peppermints avatar.

[MollyBloom]

[Straphanger]

[Underwaterbob]

Speaking of your avatar... I can't find any backup evidence but some site claims this is the last picture taken of Marlilyn Monroe before she died:

http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/OddPics/Images/Marilyn.jpg