What is separated white sugar? is it any different than regular white sugar?

Question

How it looks in the recipe...

Tres Leches Cake

Ingredients:
5 eggs, separated into yolks and whites
1 cup white sugar, separated

Answer 1

The way I read that entry is to take the 1 cup of sugar and divide into smaller cups... where you're not using the 1 cup all at once.

No such thing as separated sugar. Regular sugar should be fine.

Answer 2

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Sorry for laughing, but as a cook that one is pretty funny. Anyway, there is no such thing as separated sugar. What the recipe means is to separate the one cup. Perhaps its means into 2 half cups or some other measurement of separation. Look at the instructions for how to make the recipe and it should tell you. Usually, when making pastries, cookies, cakes, etc... the recipe will have you use half or less of the required amount of any ingredient and reserve the rest for a later stage in the directions. Hope that helps!!! Thanx for the laugh!

Answer 3

Actually, in chemistry there is a process for separating sugars. Obviously, that is not the intent. Although karat4top makes sense if the term was from a list of ingredients up in front of the actual recipe steps, I suspect the term "separated" was a carry over from the prior line and was meant for the eggs.

Then again, I found the term in an Australian/Kiwi recipe for pavlova.

Answer 4

It's really o.k. You don't run across this very much in recipes, but occasionally someone will pull this on you. It just means you will use part of the sugar in one place in the recipe, and another portion somewhere else. If you want to read on through the recipe you can divide it up further, or just keep it in the cup measure and take out what you need when you need it - that's what I do.