powdered sugar

powdered sugar

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpaʊ.dəd ˈʃʊɡ.ə/
• (US) enPR: pouʹdərd sho͝ogʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈpaʊ.dɚd ˈʃʊɡ.ɚ/

Noun

powdered sugar (usually uncountable, plural powdered sugars)

1. (US) Very finely ground sugar to which cornstarch is added to prevent lumping, mostly used in icings and confections to produce a smooth texture.

Synonyms

• icing sugar (Canada, UK)
• confectioners' sugar or confectioners sugar (Eastern US)

Translations

very finely ground sugar used in icings, etc

Bulgarian: пудра захар f (pudra zahar) Catalan: sucre de llustre m Chinese: Cantonese: 糖霜 (tong4 soeng1) Mandarin: 糖粉 (zh) (tángfěn) Czech: práškový cukr, cukr moučka m Danish: flormelis (da) Dutch: poedersuiker (nl) m Esperanto: glazursukero Faroese: florsukur n Finnish: tomusokeri (fi) French: sucre glace (fr) m, sucre à glacer (fr) m (Canada), sucre en poudre (fr) m (Canada, colloquial), sucre impalpable (fr) m (Belgium) Galician: azucre glas (gl) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Puderzucker (de) m, Staubzucker (de) m (Austria) Hungarian: porcukor (hu) Icelandic: flórsykur (is) Italian: zucchero a velo m Japanese: 粉砂糖 (こなざとう, konazatō) Maori: puehu huka Norwegian: melis Polish: cukier puder (pl) m Portuguese: açúcar de confeiteiro m Romanian: zahăr pudră n Russian: са́харная пу́дра (ru) f (sáxarnaja púdra) Slovak: práškový cukr m Spanish: azúcar flor (es), azúcar glas (es) m Swedish: florsocker (sv) n Turkish: pudra şekeri (tr) Ukrainian: цукро́ва пу́дра f (cukróva púdra)

References

• Irma Starkloff Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, The Joy of Cooking (1975, Bobbs-Merrill)