TT logo
You are viewing a low-graphics version of this page. Click the headline to view full version:

Where to buy Ready Brek and muscovado sugar

Suggested stores in Munich

Toytown Germany > Discussion forum > South Germany > Munich > Life in Munich
lesleyc
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
Pomeroy and Winterbottom had muscovado the last time I was there a few weeks ago.
Ready Brek, the tastiest wallpaper paste around, mmm smile.gif 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
Just make porridge - isn't that basically the same? (Just without the polonium wink.gif)

Muscovado is "Mascobado" in German and you can buy it here (also called the "3. Welt Laden" (3rd world shop)).
timezoner
did you ever try eating ready brek dry ?
(english shop near the hauptbahnhof frankfurt has it)
Katrina
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.
Bron
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.
Guy
For Ready Brek ersatz, try Kölln Haferkleie Flocken, leicht löslich. Available in most supermarkets.
Moonboot
I LOVE Ready Brek ph34r.gif
Pomeroy and Winterbottom DO sell it.
crusoe
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...
Gen
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
WangKanai sugar sounds worth trying from that thread. Which by the way contained a completely gratuitous mention of pork scratchings. ph34r.gif
My teeth are bored.
Janx Spirit
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
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
My father always used to call Ready Brek floor sweepings!
timezoner
he worked there then ?
crusoe
Trust Katrina to have the solution all along. But the cafe sounds worth crossing town for.
osmachar
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?? smile.gif
fraufruit
Brown Sugar

Mix one cup of sugar with 1 T. molasses.

Or 2 T. for darker version.
You are viewing a low fidelity version of this page. Click to view the full page.