What Date Sugar Does To Cookies (+ Date Syrup!) - Weird Fruit Explorer

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  • @WeirdExplorer
    @WeirdExplorer  Год назад +26

    Be sure to watch my date deep dive video if you haven't already: ruclips.net/video/n6InXjgPuW0/видео.html

    • @prime300
      @prime300 Год назад +3

      Have you tasted kadamba/cadamba fruit? Native to India

  • @adamcapets
    @adamcapets Год назад +177

    Babe, don't go to bed just yet. Weird explorer just dropped a new video

  • @arkham1329
    @arkham1329 Год назад +56

    Another famous extract of dates in Algeria, is Date Paste, or as we call it: Ghers. It is used in many sweets here. The most renouned ones are Probably Mbardja/Bradj and Makroud, both are semolina based cookies with a date paste filling. They are a must-try next time you visit, if you haven't already!

    • @chriskasprzyk6235
      @chriskasprzyk6235 Год назад +7

      I love date paste. It is my go-to sweetener for adding to a bowl of hot cereal, and i also enjoy eating on its own. It's also popular with my 1-year old grandchild and believe it or not, one of our cats is a big fan as well.

    • @anessacimi3360
      @anessacimi3360 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@chriskasprzyk6235drink milk with your date
      And especially stuff some good butter and some nuts in you're dare it's delicious
      Sorry for my bad English

  • @jrcorsey
    @jrcorsey Год назад +60

    Such a great idea to explain and demonstrate date sugar. I do appreciate your quest to not only try the world's vast variety, but to share it with us. You're a treasure!

  • @ashleylala4293
    @ashleylala4293 Год назад +10

    Since the date sugar has fiber in it, you can probably reduce your flour a little bit or up the fat content. Either of those should give you better spread.

  • @CharGC123
    @CharGC123 Год назад +47

    Personally I like to just soak some dates in water overnight then blend them to make date paste. Refrigerated, it will keep for a month or more, though it has never hung around that long. Not as sweet as date syrup, but far easier to make and all the fiber is intact, which, besides being good for our gut microbiome, also prevents blood sugar spikes.

    • @wpc456cpw
      @wpc456cpw Год назад +3

      Interesting! Are you able to tell me more about blood sugar spikes and how to prevent them? I feel like I have unstable blood glucose but I don’t have any diabetic or thyroid conditions…

    • @fidelkva4810
      @fidelkva4810 6 месяцев назад

      the fiber is not completely intact when blended

  • @StuffandThings_
    @StuffandThings_ Год назад +13

    Date sugar seems like a fantastic way to add a little fiber to something along with the sweetness. Seems very handy!

  • @emmahardesty4330
    @emmahardesty4330 Год назад +53

    Good one, nice topic. Date sugar plus white sugar will give a good cookie; depress the dough slightly before baking. Wondering if you'd take a look, a taste, of sorghum syrup. For me, it's ever so much tastier than molasses--no metalic taste. Thanks, yet again.

    • @WeirdExplorer
      @WeirdExplorer  Год назад +19

      I'll check it out!

    • @grannyplants1764
      @grannyplants1764 Год назад +2

      Yes, jaggery, palm sugar…it’s delicious, can use much less. I get a bucket of soft sugar at an Indian market. Only sweetener I use 🌴

  • @TheWeirdestOfBugs
    @TheWeirdestOfBugs Год назад +10

    I once made eggnog, but unfortunately, I didn't have vanilla extract, so I reduced the amount of sugar I used and added date syrup. It tasted like caramel. Incredible.

  • @itzel1735
    @itzel1735 Год назад +12

    Happy you tried combining all three doughs together. 👍🏽

  • @Verlisify
    @Verlisify Год назад +6

    love the cooking episodes and weird recipes

  • @LordRaptor
    @LordRaptor Год назад +7

    Never imagined videos with the topic being date fruit would be so interesting, despite living in the middle east and being familiar with a variety of date products, some of the stuff you've shown I haven't even heard of before.

  • @jacobpugh9531
    @jacobpugh9531 Год назад +8

    Used to use date syrup as the sweetner for any Korean style food that asked for rice syrup. Turned out great.

  • @MushroomMagpie
    @MushroomMagpie Год назад +8

    I will be trying this. I make a sourdough chocolate chip cookie that is already amazing and can't wait to add date sugar. I am certain the middle eastern markets here will have date sugar.
    On a side note, you can aldo add a half cup of tahini to your cookies and it only makes them tastier and even more nutritious.

  • @deshazo_henry
    @deshazo_henry Год назад +10

    Probably too late but you really should try a version with date crystals. There's a kind of famous place in the desert in California called Shields Dates, their date shakes are really good but they're made with date crystals and they're also used in a bunch of other cooking. Really good.

  • @HoosierDaddyOfficial
    @HoosierDaddyOfficial Год назад +8

    Since the date syrup is similar to molasses, I wonder what it would be like to add it to plain white sugar, in the way that you add molasses to white sugar in order to get brown sugar. Basically a brown sugar alternative. I’ll bet it’s good!

  • @ifyouvemadeitthisfarcongra7701
    @ifyouvemadeitthisfarcongra7701 Год назад +6

    Dude. I was working near Palm Desert CA this week. I was inspired by your recent video to stop at a "date" store and buy a box of the semi ripe dates and try them for the first time. They taste exactly like you described them...I'm hooked on your channel. I saw the syrup...shoulda bought a bottle.

    • @deshazo_henry
      @deshazo_henry Год назад +2

      I love Shields dates. Their date shakes are freaking amazing!

    • @ifyouvemadeitthisfarcongra7701
      @ifyouvemadeitthisfarcongra7701 Год назад +1

      @@deshazo_henry I had a date shake for the first time today...you're right-so freaking amazing...

    • @deshazo_henry
      @deshazo_henry Год назад +2

      @@ifyouvemadeitthisfarcongra7701 I usually get a pound or two of their date crystals every time I go out there to visit my grandma. TSA always looks at me funny but it's worth it.

  • @radionoakmont7756
    @radionoakmont7756 Год назад +4

    the TRINITY COOKIE it is perfection im greatly inspired Mr. Weird Explorer now i want to get all 3 sugars and make some TRINITY cookies the best of all 3 texture, flavor and consistency this is something ive been searching for this is very evry helpful i wonder how cinnamon rolls would do with the mix of all 3 sugars as well im very curious also but definetely the cookies oh gosh yes that looks like pure awesomness, and thank you again m8 this is awesomes.

  • @lisaparsons3853
    @lisaparsons3853 Год назад +5

    I wonder if reducing the flour would help with the 100% date sugar cookies?

  • @SamUnreel
    @SamUnreel Год назад +4

    Jared, you have to used brown butter with the half brown/half caster sugar. That makes the cookie flavor complex.

  • @Andrea-rw9tf
    @Andrea-rw9tf Год назад +1

    I love dates, I made a date chocolate cake, with a chocolate and pecan fudge icing.

  • @80sforever3
    @80sforever3 Год назад +1

    I'm glad i'm Malaysian. Gula =sugar
    Gula Melaka/Malacca sugar is from coconut palm. Gula kabung/kabung sugar is from nypah palm. Going to browse online stores for date sugar. Never found in stores nearby. Date syrup is so great. Love to dribble on waffles & pancakes

  • @blackletter2591
    @blackletter2591 Год назад +1

    That last date biscuit looked like it would go nice with walnuts or pecans in them, maybe also a bit of coffee.

  • @infowarriorone
    @infowarriorone Год назад +3

    I always enjoy the Jared Cooks episodes. It's science!

  • @DeathMetalDerf
    @DeathMetalDerf Год назад +2

    Those cookies look fantastic! I hope everyone is doing well and having a great day.

  • @cyssoK
    @cyssoK 11 месяцев назад +1

    The frankenstein cookie at the end looked amazing! Perfect shape and texture

  • @williampatrickfurey
    @williampatrickfurey Год назад +1

    Liked the video because your description helped me to consider the possible enzymatic reactions able to occur(possibly giving a different taste) because of added fiber; if there were places with the fiber which smaller living organisms are able to hide from larger ones that would eat them. I do believe sugar without other nutrients is too poor a substrate though, considering some bad living things could feed from them in the human body

  • @jennifercarriger6168
    @jennifercarriger6168 Год назад +1

    I remember that a lot of people in Europe and India called hard sugar derived from sap as jaggery. It is funny, because there is old colonial account in America referring to maple jaggary before it was commonly known a maple sugar or maple candy.

  • @rufuscusack2962
    @rufuscusack2962 Год назад

    Always enjoy watching!

  • @Onoma314
    @Onoma314 Год назад +1

    Nice. I usually use dates to sweeten my tamarind chutney

  • @detectfevi
    @detectfevi Год назад

    Excellent video Jared!

  • @CryptoFamily8
    @CryptoFamily8 Год назад

    Very interesting review. Thanks for sharing this!

  • @TsunamiBrook
    @TsunamiBrook Год назад +3

    In Israel we call date syrup "Silan", and I recommend trying to drizzle it over some raw tahini on bread. It's a nice combo.

    • @yacineyaker7485
      @yacineyaker7485 11 месяцев назад

      u mean Palestine

    • @TsunamiBrook
      @TsunamiBrook 11 месяцев назад

      @@yacineyaker7485 I believe the occupation of the Palestinian people is a horrible war crime, but I think it's delusional to deny the existence of Israel as a state. The land itself has no name, only people make up borders and name them. So though i am fine the name Palestine as well, no ... i don't mean Palestine. You can call it whatever you like.

  • @Jagermonsta
    @Jagermonsta Год назад

    I like your baking trays, nicely seasoned

  • @AwesomeFish12
    @AwesomeFish12 Год назад

    Always fun to learn new ways to use fruit. Thanks for the info 👍🥭

  • @richardportman8912
    @richardportman8912 Год назад

    There are reasons why i love to visit this channel.

  • @dan1chen
    @dan1chen Год назад +1

    I suspect the date sugar cookies need some additional water to loosen the texture a bit more.

  • @Catherine_Yong
    @Catherine_Yong Год назад

    I was looking for some inspiration for baking and i think this might be it! Thanks 😊

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore Год назад +2

    I bet adding date sugar to a banana bread recipe would be killer.

  • @IamsTokiWartooth
    @IamsTokiWartooth Год назад

    wonderful, simply wonderful

  • @everetteberhardt5629
    @everetteberhardt5629 Год назад

    dammit its like i stop watching your channel for a little bit and come back and you've revamped the energy and brought the fireee - this is amazing actually. literally. the cookie people are going to freak out

  • @Grom-rl8bm
    @Grom-rl8bm Год назад

    Loved this vid

  • @mediocreturbulence5746
    @mediocreturbulence5746 Год назад

    I LOVE THIS EXPERIMENT VIDEO

  • @Alina-ws6ob
    @Alina-ws6ob Год назад

    Love your copper cookie trays. 😊

  • @mustachewalrus
    @mustachewalrus Год назад

    You are upping my cookie game!!

  • @RoseNZieg
    @RoseNZieg Год назад

    thanks for experimenting and telling us about it!! I never knew they existed.

  • @davidbenner2289
    @davidbenner2289 Год назад

    I'll try it. Thank you.

  • @frankmacleod2565
    @frankmacleod2565 Год назад

    Great video.

  • @stephsexoticpets
    @stephsexoticpets Год назад

    AWESOME VID

  • @obkf-too
    @obkf-too 11 месяцев назад

    Algerian here, my friend sells date related products and I used to work with him, my favorite way to use date syrup is with crapes and similar breads.
    For the date sugar, I love using it in milk shakes and natural juices, and to bake brioche (kind of sweet bread)

  • @capnstewy55
    @capnstewy55 Год назад +4

    Yeah, that's definitely the winner. I now need to go buy date sugar and show up my mom's old cookie recipe.

  • @bazzboda4785
    @bazzboda4785 Год назад +8

    I would be curious how unrefined cane sugar(at least in Canada brown sugar is white sugar that has had molasses added back into it) would fit into this, I am assuming it would be somewhere between the brown sugar and date sugar.
    Also personally I would love to see how the dairy substitutes would work in baked good. As I believe this was never covered in the milk substitute videos.

    • @kyrab7914
      @kyrab7914 Год назад +1

      Soy milk I've found is p close to a 1 to 1 substitute for me, almond milk I think might be slightly more watery. I'm also interested in others tho

    • @scallopohare9431
      @scallopohare9431 Год назад

      It is very subtle. Some is called Demerera sugar, though I am not sure if that is a specific variety. Unrefined white-ish sugar makes the best pound cake, meaning really real pound cake. I use Florida Crystals. They are probably available on-line. Also, it is good to sprinkle on rock cakes.

  • @Sam.Sung_
    @Sam.Sung_ Год назад

    You read our minds with that final cookie.

  • @tambaloneusderpaloneus6626
    @tambaloneusderpaloneus6626 Год назад

    I have date syrup (the fruit date sort) and it's perfect for sweetening porridge because that extra flavour is so nice.

  • @Ralpha1961
    @Ralpha1961 Год назад +1

    The dried dates dough needs more water or oil. The powder absorbed the moisture allowing a dryer cookie.

  • @paulgroth3345
    @paulgroth3345 Год назад +1

    How I envy you your date syrup I have not had any of many years one of the great joys

  • @scallopohare9431
    @scallopohare9431 Год назад +1

    Sticky toffee pudding uses dates.

  • @wpc456cpw
    @wpc456cpw Год назад

    This is really interesting!! Thanks for sharing Jared. I want to bake some cookies now…

  • @JacquesTreehorn
    @JacquesTreehorn Год назад

    Add gelatin if you want to make them chewy. I remember when quaker oats used to put dates in their granola cereal. Now it is just raisins.

  • @stockicide
    @stockicide Год назад

    You can find that exact brand of date syrup in larger Wal-Marts if you don't live near a Whole Foods or similar store.

  • @riverAmazonNZ
    @riverAmazonNZ Год назад +2

    Personally I love palm sugar. The taste reminds me of jersey caramel. I find date syrup has a slight metallic aftertaste, subtly. Maybe it’s the burnt taste you mentioned. I haven’t tried date sugar.

  • @coffeebeforemascara
    @coffeebeforemascara Год назад

    Oooooooooooo, sounds delish!

  • @NamasteTexas
    @NamasteTexas 9 месяцев назад

    I found this while I was looking at recipes for making chocolate syrup at home. I like to make iced coffee with a little dark chocolate or chocolate syrup. I'm going to try making chocolate syrup with date sugar and see how that works

  • @GamerDuDimanche1456
    @GamerDuDimanche1456 Год назад +4

    I believe that the short bread taste would be because date sugar id actually equal to a flour and sugar mix, not mainly sugar. So if you reduced the amount of flour and increased the date sugar content in yot recipe, you'd get a more usual cookie. Wpuld have to test how much 'regular' sugar is actually in date sugar

  • @clairmorrill8660
    @clairmorrill8660 Год назад

    Jared, the natives used to eat Sala berries, they have a natural appetite suppressant in them though

  • @martinw3780
    @martinw3780 Год назад

    We are loving your videos! Can you share the cookie recipe you used using the 3 sugars together? Would we just sub in an equal amount of the 3 sugars for the recipe's total sugar? Glad we found this channel! Thank you!

  • @MithalanMithrarin
    @MithalanMithrarin Год назад

    I'm writing an isekai story about someone becoming an orc living in the desert, and you have just convinced me that the orcs would grow and harvest dates!

  • @jamesmitchell6925
    @jamesmitchell6925 Год назад

    I love date sugar! Dr Greger says it’s the healthiest sweetener. He’s smart.

  • @sharon94503
    @sharon94503 6 месяцев назад

    What you are using is date 'powder', not date 'granulated' sugar. The Date Lady (found at Walmart) is more of a granulated sugar and provides a bit less dryness when baking. Also, it says it is a 1:1 swap, but I find that it's better at around 2/3 of a cup date sugar to replace 1 cup of white or brown. Also, because date sugar doesn't melt the same, flattening cookie dough before baking helps with a better texture, imho.

  • @DaBunne
    @DaBunne Год назад

    basic white sugar is treated as a liquid in recipes and not as a dry ingredient. so when using date sugar in a recipe, you would have to consider the high fiber content and reduce the flour slightly in the recipe to compensate for the added fiber of the date sugar, and increase the water (or milk?) to compensate for the lack of surar-type liquid not getting added.

    • @bouzakmaya3260
      @bouzakmaya3260 11 месяцев назад

      If it's not à bother, do we use the same amount of date sugar like we do with white sugar?

  • @goednieuwskrantje-nl
    @goednieuwskrantje-nl 11 месяцев назад

    Amazing

  • @mukhtaralbahlani5273
    @mukhtaralbahlani5273 Год назад

    Hey, so I have the feeling I need to correct you, although making date molasses can be made by cooking them they use just keep them in a hot container somewhere under the sun and have something push onto the dates to squeeze the molasses out... no water required. Though I think that would depend on the cultivar of dates you have because some produce more sap than others and it might also depend on the country your in but that's how we do it

  • @JustSpectre
    @JustSpectre Год назад

    Speaking of cultures that uses dates, it was the favourite fruit of the oldest civilization, ancient Sumerians. Records of them using various products from dates including sirup remained on ancient tablets found all over modern day Iraq including recipes such as mersu (date and nuts balls) or Palace cake (sort of a fruit cake with dates and raisins).

  • @clairmorrill8660
    @clairmorrill8660 Год назад

    Jared, you forgot about another fruit from North America, it grows in the Pacific Northwest, is called Sala, it's botanical name is Gauntheria salon

  • @AymenDZA
    @AymenDZA Год назад

    My aunty makes us Date Syrup almost all the time, and one thing she always tells me is that if the syrup has a "burnt" flavor in it then it wasn't cooked/prepared properly, I'm biased so of course I prefer her Syrup to the widely available ones in the market but to each their own but there's quite a lot of variations when it comes to syrup from different flavors and concentrations of sugar to different consistencies and so on.

  • @JacindaH
    @JacindaH Год назад +1

    I wonder how dates would work for a roll out sugar cookie?

  • @granddaddy_funk
    @granddaddy_funk Год назад

    Date syrup sounds like what bill Cosby would call his special barbeque sauce.

  • @jmcr71795
    @jmcr71795 Год назад +1

    A short question on roasting coffee, have you ever tried using a hot air popcorn popper? This was suggested to me by a professional roaster back in the 1980s, for some Nicaraguan coffee I had brought back to Canada, and other than the piles of "fluff" flying around, it worked wonderfully. I have never though though to use it to roast other fake/substitute "coffee" seeds, but do you think it might work?

  • @oxcide5888
    @oxcide5888 Год назад

    i love a crumbly cookie the date cookie looks so fkn good

  • @Gringo_Mayo
    @Gringo_Mayo Год назад +1

    This man always somehow makes me crave fruits that I hate. Damn you Weird Fruit Explorer!

    • @mattmarzula
      @mattmarzula Год назад +5

      Those are some powerful emotions for a topic so sweet.

  • @michaeldesilvio221
    @michaeldesilvio221 Год назад

    What is the healthiest sugar to buy?
    I just bought coconut sugar and I love it.

  • @thetobyntr9540
    @thetobyntr9540 Год назад

    The holy trinity of the cookie

  • @PhosphorAlchemist
    @PhosphorAlchemist Год назад

    Grocers that cater to the diaspora from the middle east, northern Africa, and Central Asia will have some firm of date sugar or syrup that is _much_ more affordable than a Whole Foods or natural foods store.
    These are usually small stores with very specific inventory. While it can feel intimidating to walk in not knowing anything, many shopkeepers I've run into way are excited to share their food culture if you come with curiosity and a willingness to try new things. Get a pastry while you're there -- delicious! Many of these stores remain cash-only for small transactions, so go with that in mind.

  • @critterjon4061
    @critterjon4061 Год назад

    You can actually do this process with any fruit for example in Eastern Europe watermelon sugar is popular

  • @scotmcpherson
    @scotmcpherson Год назад

    my chocolate chip recipe doesn't flatten when you bake and they come out cakey....solution? Just flatten them a bit with your fingers instead balling them. Works like a charm.

  • @BAlex2209
    @BAlex2209 Год назад

    Try Nōlen Gur ,( Bengali style, first press date mollases/syrup).

  • @endlessnameless7004
    @endlessnameless7004 Год назад +1

    I wonder how that date syrup tastes in espresso.

  • @cerberaodollam
    @cerberaodollam Год назад +6

    An Adam Ragusea style experiment, nice. BTW, I'm allergic to tomatoes and was wondering if you gonna make more alternative ketchups?

    • @kyrab7914
      @kyrab7914 Год назад +1

      There's a whole series of will it ketchup, I recommend it. Except the noni one, don't do that

    • @wpc456cpw
      @wpc456cpw Год назад +1

      Have you had Banana Ketchup before? You can find it at most Asian grocers, it’s a Philipino thing!

  • @RitaElaineHeltonBarker-uz4sz
    @RitaElaineHeltonBarker-uz4sz Год назад

    Maybe cook another batch with 3/4's date sugar and 1/4 Brown Sugar of the amount the recipe calls for

  • @rob._.
    @rob._. Год назад

    I'm guessing the fiber absorbed more moisture leading to it not spreading enough too.
    Dough might need more moisture.

  • @cuttwice3905
    @cuttwice3905 Год назад

    Date sugar is one of my favorite ingredients. I buy it at Halal stores.

  • @kyrab7914
    @kyrab7914 Год назад

    Those white sugar only cookies are so bake sale cookies. This is really neat tho, I'll have to experiment some. Also I'm not sure, but the shortbread taste could just be that it doesn't have *as much* sugar in it?

  • @MohdAradi
    @MohdAradi Год назад

    Ok, I'm here again
    first things first
    The Date syrup what we call (debs) shouldn't be extracted like you said but its
    what you get when you press the dates hydraulically
    second the sugar is extracted just like they do with cane sugar almost but not fully refiened (sold in KSA)
    what you have is more like powdered fruit / flour
    third since it has fiber in it has fiber in it, you should've accounted for it by adding a bit more water to the dough
    last. with the real pressed syrup best way of consuming is with oil fried dough balls called "Lokma"

  • @StalkerNaturaliste
    @StalkerNaturaliste Год назад

    Hi. I just searched and didn't found a video of you reviewing caroub (Ceratonia siliqua), it used to be a popular fruit around the mediterranean. It taste kind of like caramel and chocolate and it's supposed to be a good snack to lose weight because it's actually not that sweet. You can also find a melasse with a surprisingly rich taste. In France I can find it in turkish and lebanese stores.

    • @pattheplanter
      @pattheplanter Год назад

      I believe that carob syrup with tahini is the PB&J of Lebanon. It is very tasty.

    • @StalkerNaturaliste
      @StalkerNaturaliste Год назад +1

      @@pattheplanter i bought some blindly, i will try that thanks. It's very tasty in any pastry, or as suggar in a tea.

  • @joshuarichards8065
    @joshuarichards8065 Год назад

    Concidering how the date syrup cookies look I'm interested in trying it in scones.

  • @sharilove8780
    @sharilove8780 Год назад

    Dates are also low glycemic.....or at least a whole lot better than sugar. Not sure about the syrup because it may have lost its fiber content.....but I still use the syrup in place of sugar....I wonder if you use a combo of the sugar and syrup, kind of like you do with white and brown sugar if it would come out better?

  • @janreed3338
    @janreed3338 Год назад

    You must come to Indio, CA for a date shake

  • @barrett5195
    @barrett5195 Год назад

    Baking cookies with Jared

  • @Shaden0040
    @Shaden0040 Год назад

    Try mixing 1/3 of each sufar.

  • @diplenski
    @diplenski Год назад

    i love figs and dates in cookies