Two kinds of sugar

Unrefined.
The rest is just glucose.

Refined sugar is the same compound whatever you put it in. Unrefined sugar has flavour — caramel, molasses, smoke, hay — that becomes part of the recipe.

— What we carry

Unrefined.

Cane sugar with the molasses still in it. Maple boiled, dried, and crystallized. Raw honey straight from a Manitoba apiary. Sucanat — dried cane juice, nothing removed. The sweetener tastes like the plant it came from.

— What we don't

Refined white.

Pure sucrose. Molasses spun off, bleached, sometimes filtered with bone char. Nothing to taste, nothing to recommend, sold five-pound bags at a time at the IGA. You don't need us for that.

In stock

The sweet
shelf.

Big bags get a per-pound discount. Honey by the kilo in mason jars, refillable when you bring the jar back.

A short guide

Substituting
one for another.

Cup-for-cup is rarely cup-for-cup. The flavour swap is more interesting than the math anyway.

Replace
With
The trick
1 cup white sugar
¾ cup raw honey
Reduce other liquid by ¼ cup. Drop oven temp 25°F.
1 cup white sugar
1 cup unrefined cane
Direct swap. Adds a faint molasses note.
1 cup white sugar
¾ cup maple syrup
Reduce other liquid by 3 tbsp. Best in baked goods.
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup Sucanat
Closest natural equivalent — same colour, same flavour.
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup coconut sugar
Less sweet — lift the quantity by 10% if you like dessert sweet.