[Sca-cooks] Kitchen amusements

[Speaker To Idiots]

>> 
>> 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

I overcooked the rose syrup, too, but there was less of it to start with, 
so it got a lot closer to hard-crack and was thus much less amusing when I 
went to attempt to decant it into bottles. ;-)

The cherry (which I freely admit I made up, but it's tasty) and the lemon 
were much better. Probably because there was a lot more liquid volume, in 
both cases.

Margaret FitzWilliam