Here’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the shelf life of common baking staples. Audrey Morgan is an associate food editor at Food & Wine with over seven years of experience covering food ...

Learn how to prevent clumps, which containers work best, and what to do if your brown sugar has already hardened. Brown sugar doesn’t always behave. One day it’s perfectly soft and scoopable; the next ...

While there is no “baking season” in my house (I bake year-round and often), I do tend to ramp up my production of sweets as the colder months set in. Recently, as I was fishing out all my baking ...

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?