[Sca-cooks] pine nut candy (and more)

[Steve]

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I haven't tried that recipe, but, one thing I have found with candy recipes
is make them as the recipe says the first time you do them.  After I have
made them a couple times I'll mess with proportions.  I hardly ever double
or triple a recipe since I can't work fast enough by myself to manipulate
that much candy by myself.

Æduin

At 02:03 PM 10/01/2001 -0400, you wrote:

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>This is the pinenut candy originally from Curye on Inglysch, redacted by
>Maggie Black in The Medieval Cookbook.
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>I tripled her recipe (which may have been one of my problems), and wasn't
>happy with the skimpy amount of pine nuts she used, so I doubled those.  I
>put it in an aluminum tray with edges where it set more like fudge.  I'm not
>sure if it's supposed to be harder than this or not, but I can imagine some
>messy eating if I serve it this soft at an event.
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>The batch Olwen got to eat at the cooks' guild meeting suffered from a 2
>hour car ride in 85 degree temps and arrived downright runny.  After a brief
>shot in the fridge we could stand no more and ate it with spoons.  It was
>particularly good "spread" on the cake.
>Wrynne

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