sugar cube

noun

: a small cube of sugar that is put in coffee or tea to make it sweet

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The 3-Ingredient Holiday Jewel Is 2024’s Christmas Cocktail—How to Make It Champagne Cocktail Courtesy of Tyler Chauvin, food and beverage director at Swingers, The Crazy Golf Club Into a flute, add 1 sugar cube (or 1 teaspoon sugar). Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Dec. 2024 Place sugar cube in bottom of a coupe glass; add bitters. Craig Ruff, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2024 The Verdict La Palma sits like a stark white sugar cube plonked into the heart of Capri’s main town, a couple minutes’ walk from the Piazzetta. Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2024 The sugar cube creates a great starting place for the bubbles, creating a lovely effect in the glass. Kevin Gavagan, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024 Put 2–4 dashes of Angostura bitters on the sugar cube and drop it in the glass. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 May 2023 Add the tomato paste, salt, strained tomatoes, sugar cube, cloves, coriander seeds, turmeric and 1 tsp. Nereya Otieno, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023 The chip combines a lens, an image processor, and a Bluetooth radio on a module smaller than a sugar cube. IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2018

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