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...help holiday bakers who want to make their favorite goodies with fewer carbohydrates and less sugar (and for people, like diabetics, who have to watch their sugar intake for health reasons), Splenda and Equal have introduced baking blends. Equal Sugar Lite--a mix of sugar, maltodextrin, aspartame, acesulfame potassium (a common no-cal sweetener) and artificial flavor--can be substituted for real sugar on a cup-for-cup basis in recipes; the result is foodstuffs with half the calories and carbs. Splenda Sugar Blend for Baking is part granulated sugar and part no-calorie sweetener sucralose. You need only half...
...answer is ... almost. In our varied testing of basic cooking and saucemaking, both Equal Sugar Lite and Splenda Sugar Blend for Baking performed admirably, dissolving and sweetening just as well as sugar, with no detectable change in taste...
...baking, the results were mixed. Cakes made with substitutes didn't rise quite as high as cakes made with sugar, but the taste was good, and the substitutes whipped up into frosting just fine. (There was no discernible difference between the Equal and Splenda products.) Chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies were less brown and slightly more crumbly when baked with either substitute than when sugar was used. The taste was authentic, but the Equal and Splenda cookies left a very slight diet-soda-like aftertaste. It's not necessarily unpleasant, but a little startling coming from a cookie...
Strahan’s suit says he is filing the action to “protect his right and opportunity of equal access” to the law library. He maintains that the public “enjoys full access” to the library because of its membership in the Federal Depository Library Program, which maintains publicly accessible collections of government documents at member libraries...
...out” on everything from providing retractable awnings for the Au Bon Pain chess players to creating a school-wide “Adopt a Squirrel” program for our friendly Cambridge co-inhabitants. And recently, this newspaper declared itself for the principle of Equal Opting for All—arguing that HRL should not be allowed to opt-out of the abortion part of the UHS bill because other groups, like vegans, could not selectively opt-out of comprehensive university fees which may contain an element to which they are opposed...