[Sca-cooks] candy

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:42 PM, grizly wrote:

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> Charles O'Connor found descriptions of caramel (or a substance very  
> like
> caramel) in old Irish writings -- butter, milk, honey, boil and  
> stir...
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> toodles, margaret> > > > >
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> Did he give any indication what "old" meant in those writings?

Well, that would be one question, but the first one came to my mind  
was, is there any evidence that any actual caramelization is taking  
place here...

I mean, the above sort of looks a little like what is sometimes done  
to caramel, but is there really any reason to think that it is  
anything like caramel that they're doing it to?

Adamantius