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 "id": "powdered-sugar",
 "type": "term",
 "names": {
  "name": "Powdered sugar",
  "aliases": [
   "confectioner's sugar",
   "icing sugar",
   "10X"
  ],
  "said": "It goes everywhere. That is not a flaw in the product."
 },
 "region": [
  "us"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "letter": "P",
  "part_of_speech": "noun"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Sugar ground fine and cut with a little starch to stop it caking. The base of every glaze and the finish on beignets, malasadas and pączki.",
  "story": "Confectioner's sugar is graded by fineness — 10X is the finest common grade — and usually carries around 3 percent cornstarch as an anti-caking agent, which is why a glaze made from it sets opaque rather than clear."
 },
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  {
   "to": "glaze-table",
   "as": "Where it is used by the bucket.",
   "rel": "kitchen"
  },
  {
   "to": "beignet",
   "as": "Buried in it.",
   "rel": "donut"
  }
 ],
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  },
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   "names.said": {
    "tier": "tradition"
   }
  }
 },
 "schema": 1,
 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "etymology": {
  "root": "sugar ground to a powder; confectioner's sugar in the trade, icing sugar in Britain",
  "first_attested": "",
  "note": "Graded by fineness — 10X is the finest common grade — and cut with starch against caking.",
  "tier": "cited",
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 },
 "blurb": "Sugar ground fine and cut with a little starch to stop it caking. The base of every glaze and the finish on beignets, malasadas and pączki.",
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  {
   "key": "us",
   "name": "The United States",
   "state": null,
   "note": "use when a node belongs to the whole country"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "to": "glaze-table",
   "type": "kitchen",
   "name": "The glaze table",
   "as": "Where it is used by the bucket.",
   "rel": "kitchen"
  },
  {
   "to": "beignet",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Beignet",
   "as": "Buried in it.",
   "rel": "donut"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "id": "s:wp-powdered-sugar",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Powdered sugar — Wikipedia",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdered_sugar",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
 ],
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  "text.what": {
   "tier": "cited",
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  },
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   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-powdered-sugar"
  },
  "etymology": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-powdered-sugar"
  }
 },
 "primary_image": null,
 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [],
 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "beignet",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Beignet",
   "as": "What it is buried in.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "glaze-table",
   "type": "kitchen",
   "name": "The glaze table",
   "as": "What it is made of.",
   "rel": "term"
  }
 ]
}