[Sca-cooks] I need help in how to use antique mold

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

What he said. Old chocolate molds have some way to pour the chocolate
in--most often the bottom is completely open--and usually some sort of
clip to hold them in the correct position while the chocolate cools. True,
the clips are easily lost, so the lack of a clip/stand doesn't mean much,
but its lack of a sprue suggests that it is some variety of solid candy
mold (marzipan, sugarpaste, fondant).

Margaret

> --
> With the mold closed is there any way to pour anything into the
> cavities?  Is the metal thin enough that it may have been clipped together
> to prevent opening?  If neither of these features are there my guess is
> butter/marzipan or other solid/semi-solid malleable item mold.  If you
> can't pour a liquid in it or clip it closed (even if there is no
> permanently attached lock) it most likely isn't for anything liquid.
>
> Æduin
>
> At 05:28 PM 04/02/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >Hi!
> >Last weekend, I went antiquing and found a
> >wonderful old pansy shaped mold.  The store I
> >found it in said it was an old chocolate mold.
> >But it looks more like a butter mold to me.
> >But regardless, it is an iron mold, with three
> >one inch in diameter pansy forms, with a hinge so
> >it has to be used book-style.  One side has the
> >top of the flower and the other has the bottom.
> >The mold doesn't lock, so you can't lock it and
> >then pour in whatever you want to mold.  As far
> >as I can figure out, you either have to pour in
> >your chocolate and then fasten somehow the top to
> >the bottom.  Which is why I think it might be a
> >butter mold in that you could put in semi-hard
> >butter and press the two sides together to create
> >a pat of butter that is a 3-D pansy.
> >
> >Does anyone on the list know what I have and know
> >how to use it?  Is it really a chocolate mold?
> >Or a butter mold?  Or ????  Could I use other
> >items in it like almond paste?  Or suger paste?
> >Or ... ???
> >
> >Unfortunately, I don't have a digital camera and
> >can't post a picture of it.
> >
> >Thanks for any help.
> >
> >Huette
> >