[Sca-cooks] Kitchen amusements

[Robert Downie]

Speaker To Idiots wrote:

>
> And now for chapter 2 in Mishaps with Margaret. The astute reader will 
> remember the first kitchen mishap, which involved spilling the jar of 
> myrrh into the stove, causing the lovely scent to fill the room every 
> time stovetop cooking happened.
>
> This weekend's mishap involved the discovery that if you are making 
> (or, in this case, attempting to make) pomegranate syrup a la the 
> Anonymous Andalusian recipe, and you cook it for too long, you get 
> pomegranate toffee. *g*
>
> Margaret FitzWilliam 

That's not _necessarily_ a bad thing...  mmm, toffee.
A similar thing happened to us at the Iron Chef feast at Cooks & Bards.  
We left the fruit syrup on the stove "just a little longer" and ended up 
with hard-crack candy!  Made some lovely spun sugar to garnish the 
torte, though
 :-)

Faerisa