{"id":38341,"date":"2026-01-28T19:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/?p=38341"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:22:51","slug":"spicy-orange-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/?p=38341","title":{"rendered":"Spicy Orange Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-38342\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orange-Sugar-with-Szechuan-Peppers-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orange-Sugar-with-Szechuan-Peppers-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orange-Sugar-with-Szechuan-Peppers-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orange-Sugar-with-Szechuan-Peppers-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orange-Sugar-with-Szechuan-Peppers-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orange-Sugar-with-Szechuan-Peppers-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orange-Sugar-with-Szechuan-Peppers-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orange-Sugar-with-Szechuan-Peppers-180x270.jpg 180w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orange-Sugar-with-Szechuan-Peppers.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/>Orange Sugar with Szechuan Peppers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2 cups sugar<\/p>\n<p>1 teaspoon Szechuan peppers<\/p>\n<p>1 tablespoon orange zest<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Pour 2 cups of refined white sugar into a 6\u00d710-inch glass baking dish and roast for 2 hours, stirring every 10 minutes. It should be a sandy tan color and coarse, like turbinado sugar. Let the sugar cool completely before moving to the next step. Grind the Szechuan pepper in a mortar and pestle until it is crushed and the smell is starting to release. Add the crushed pepper to a spice grinder along with 1 tablespoon of the roasted sugar. Pulse until the Szechuan pepper is even smaller in size and equally distributed throughout the sugar. Pour into a food processor with the rest of the sugar and orange zest. Pulse until equally distributed and lay the sugar out on a baking sheet to dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange Sugar with Szechuan Peppers &nbsp; 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon Szechuan peppers 1 tablespoon orange zest &nbsp; Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Pour 2 cups of refined white sugar into a 6\u00d710-inch glass baking dish and roast for 2 hours, stirring every 10 minutes. It should be a sandy tan color and coarse, like turbinado sugar. Let the sugar cool completely before moving to the next step. Grind the Szechuan pepper in a mortar and pestle until it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/?p=38341\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[160,80],"class_list":["post-38341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condiments-extras","tag-diy","tag-sweet-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38343,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38341\/revisions\/38343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}