stackyFACTSBaking used to involve a terrifying amount of manual labor. Before the convenience of neat little granulated sugar bags, refined sugar was poured into massive, rock-hard cones. To sweeten your tea, you literally had to attack this solid crystalline boulder with a pair of aggressive metal nippers to violently snap off a jagged chunk.
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