[Sca-cooks] Caramel Laura Secord

[Daniel Myers]

As I remember it, "boite" means "box" - but since I've never seen condensed
milk in a box I will assume that it also means "can".

It might be that it just needs to boil for longer to evaporate more water.
On their web site (http://www.eaglebrand.com/) they give a recipe for easy
caramel that involves simmering the condensed milk for 1 to 1.5 hours.  On
the other hand, "1 tasse d'eau froide en trois parties" could be a typo or
mistranslation of "one third of one cup".  I've seen stranger mixups in
recipes.

- DM


Quoted from Lis - 4/25/02, 8:33 PM -0400:
>Hi all. I figured someone would be able to help me out here on this list. My
>French is getting rusty.
>
>My daughter was assigned a report/project on the famous 1812 Canadian Spy
>Heroine called Laura Secord. Ms Secord went on to found a high-class
>confectionary under her name that exists to this day. This project is due
>next week, but we thought we'd try out the recipe to see how it works.
>
>I found a recipe in french for Caramel Laura Secord, and what I got was a
>caramel sauce (well, it's thickening up some in the fridge, but I have grave
>doubts), so I'm thinking I probably messed up on the translation. OTOH I've
>never made caramels before, so maybe choosing a recipe in a foreign language
>was a bad choice for a first experience. I'm thinking the recipe proportions
>are way off, though. Too much water or not enough condensed milk, to my way
>of thinking.
>
>Here goes:
>
>Caramel Laura Secord
>Recette (recipe)
>1/2 lb beurre  (1/2 lb butter, no problem)
>2 tasses de sirop de mais (2 cups corn syrup...got it. I used clear Karo)
>4 tasses de cassonade (4 cups of, after much searching, brown sugar)
>
>Faire bouillir 5 minutes. Retirer du feu, ajouter:
>Make boiling for 5 minutes. Retire from the fire. Add:
>
>1 tasse d'eau froide en trois parties (1 cup cold water divided in 3
>parts--necessary because it spits at you if you add too much in one go. This
>seems like a lot of water).
>
>1 boite de lait Eagle Brand (one ??? of milk Eagle Brand, I'm assuming 1 can
>Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk, so it's fudge-like caramels---but what
>size/how much? 1 can seems too little)
>
>Laisser refroider et mettre dans des plattes hermetiques. Se conserve au
>refrigerateur. (Let cool and put in clean pans. Keep refrigerated).
>
>Before anyone points it out, I AM aware that the original Laura Secord is
>unlikely to have had Eagle Brand Condensed milk in 1812.
>
>Any help, etc....
>
>Aoife
>
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