lesleyc
Apr 4 2008, 6:45 am
Just wondered if anyone knew if there are any shops selling Ready Brek or muscovado sugar? I've had a look around but haven't had any success yet.
Thanks.
crusoe
Apr 4 2008, 7:40 am
Pomeroy and Winterbottom had muscovado the last time I was there a few weeks ago.
Ready Brek, the tastiest wallpaper paste around, mmm
Food From Home do it (at a gourmet-priced 4.47 per pack) but I've never seen it anywhere else. Mind you, maybe they had it at P&W and I looked straight through it.
Edit: FfH also do dark brown soft sugar which either is muscovado or is within Ready-Brek spitting distance of it (the treacly tasting stuff with the little lumps in).
Janx Spirit
Apr 4 2008, 8:07 am
Just make porridge - isn't that basically the same? (Just without the polonium

)
Muscovado is "Mascobado" in German and you can buy it
here (also called the "3. Welt Laden" (3rd world shop)).
timezoner
Apr 4 2008, 8:17 am
did you ever try eating ready brek dry ?
(english shop near the
hauptbahnhof frankfurt has it)
Katrina
Apr 4 2008, 8:26 am
Ready Brek has a bit of flour in it, it's pretty hard to get porridge to that errr, well crusoe has it spot-on, it's wallpaper paste.
Can't stand it runny, I like it only like semi-dried cement.
Some larger
Kaufhof food halls have Tate & Lyle Muscovado.
And yes I have eaten Ready Brek dry. It is not as good as Paxo dry, but few things are in life.
There's a small cafe on Schlörstr. (
Neuhausen) that sells Billingtons sugar - just about every sort of brown sugar you might need. Can't remember the price, or the name of the cafe, but it's a small one with loads of coffee machines in the window.
Edit: I think it's Schlörstr. 11.
For Ready Brek ersatz, try Kölln Haferkleie Flocken, leicht löslich. Available in most supermarkets.
Moonboot
Apr 4 2008, 10:43 am
I LOVE Ready Brek
Pomeroy and Winterbottom DO sell it.
crusoe
Apr 4 2008, 11:48 am
I had fond memories of it too, but I tried some in adult years and it just wasn't the same.
Janx, I see lots of health food places stocking stuff they CALL muscovado, but never found any yet that had the required dampness and treacliness. All pale and bland. The nearest (edit: readily available) is the Südzucker Brauner Zucker (Farinzucker), especially now they sell it in plastic-coated bags so you actually buy a bag of sugar and not a concrete brick. Will check out Schlörstrasse though, sounds good.
Dry Ready Brek?
Why?
Now, dry Alpen, THAT I understand...
Oh it's soft brown sticky sugar you're after? Check the thread on
Brown Sugar in Munich and of course it's also listed on
British and American Foods
crusoe
Apr 4 2008, 12:08 pm
WangKanai sugar sounds worth trying from that thread. Which by the way contained a completely gratuitous mention of pork scratchings.
My teeth are bored.
Janx Spirit
Apr 4 2008, 12:39 pm
crusoe, agree with you, the German stuff just isn't the same although I've not yet tried the fair trade stuff. I order mine from Food from Home or, in an emergency, grab a packet from Winterbotts.
Katrina
Apr 4 2008, 12:42 pm
QUOTE (Bron @ Apr 4 2008, 10:17 am)

There's a small cafe on Schlörstr. (
Neuhausen) that sells Billingtons sugar
If that place doesn't have it, walk back up to Rotkreuzplatz (although you should go to the Mexican shop seeing as you're there and it's a crime not to nip into Scarletti for a cornet on the way past), either try that
Kaufhof or walk around the chemist's/Deutsche Bank into Leonrodstr. as along there is a Thai-Asian store across from the Meldeamt, lovely folk and that's where I buy my light brown and dark brown Tate & Lyle.
Uncle Nick
Apr 4 2008, 12:43 pm
My father always used to call Ready Brek floor sweepings!
timezoner
Apr 4 2008, 12:46 pm
he worked there then ?
crusoe
Apr 4 2008, 1:30 pm
Trust Katrina to have the solution all along. But the cafe sounds worth crossing town for.
osmachar
Apr 4 2008, 3:57 pm
QUOTE (Janx Spirit @ Apr 4 2008, 12:39 pm)

crusoe, agree with you, the German stuff just isn't the same although I've not yet tried the fair trade stuff. I order mine from Food from Home or, in an emergency, grab a packet from Winterbotts.
A sugar emergency??
fraufruit
Apr 4 2008, 4:51 pm
Brown Sugar
Mix one cup of sugar with 1 T. molasses.
Or 2 T. for darker version.
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