[Sca-cooks] Kitchen amusements

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> > 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

It's happening all over ;-) My latest batch of fudge got over-cooked, and is
hard as a rock- now I know what Johnna meant about not over-cooking it
<sigh> Live and learn ;-) I only got distracted for a few seconds- I
thought....

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....



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