With an electric mixer or by hand, cream together the butter, sugar and light brown sugar.

Ms. Charles dumped light brown sugar straight from the box into the bowl of the processor.

In a mixing bowl, combine pecans, raisins, cinnamon and 3/4 cup of light brown sugar.

In a separate bowl, whisk the light brown sugar, granulated sugar and cornstarch together, then add to the berries.

In the bowl of an electric mixer combine butter, light brown sugar and superfine sugar.

I generally go for light sugar.

If you don't have light brown sugar on hand, you can use two tablespoons of honey.

Remove from the heat and stir in the light muscovado sugar, the cinnamon and the lemon rind.

Demerara sugar has less molasses than light brown sugar.

Classically, the sugar is white, but many recipes call for light brown sugar, honey - even molasses.