Can I use brown sugar instead of demerara

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Want to make some biscuits but I only have brown sugar in .

yes!

It's official, mumsnet has the answer to everything!

I'm making flapjacks with DS and was wondering exactly this.

I was going to start a thread, but thought "don't be lazy, google it" so I did, and this thread is what came up!

Spooky! Four years to the day you bumped the thread!

Oooh, I didn't notice that!

Maybe there's an annual cooking-with-brown-sugar cycle which is immensely powerful but of which we have no conscious knowledge?

On the 27th August people all round the world suddenly get the urge to make lovely sweet things