Extra-Fine Granulated Sugar and Confectioners’ Sugar

It happens in the best of families that a staple ingredient runs short— or turns out to be missing—after you have begun preparing something, and there’s just no substitute for the missing link. If what you lack is confectioners’ (or powdered) sugar, or extra-fine sugar for a special purpose, the day is saved if you own a food processor.

Simply fit the bowl with the steel blade and process ordinary granulated sugar until it is as fine as you wish. It may take some time, but less time and aggravation than a trip to the grocery store would involve, especially if you’re at your country house, ten miles from town. There. That’s the recipe.