SC - Another cooking failure - *sigh*

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

And it came to pass on 31 Mar 00,, that Gwynydd of Culloden wrote:

> I thought that I had the
> honey to soft ball - that is what my thermometer told me anyway.  But,
> this thermometer suggests that for accuracy it needs to be about 21/2
> inches into the liquid - not possible with 1 cup of honey in any of my
> saucepans!

Have you considered using the old-fashioned method to test the honey 
temperature?  ie., dropping some into cold water and seeing what it 
does?


Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net