[Sca-cooks] burns and crabs

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jun 23, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:

>> Seems to me that peeling the sugar off her arm is what caused the bad
>> scarring. I would have run for the nearest sink and ran cold water  
>> over it
>> - would have dislodged the sugar and given my arm some relief!
>
> At one point when making comfits, I accidentally coated one finger  
> with
> hot sugar syrup. When I ran cold water over it, the sugar syrup
> hardened, thus leaving my finger cooking nicely inside a candy  
> shell; as
> I recall, I had to use warm water to get the sugar off at all.

For those who haven't done this, some recipes actually instruct you  
to do this. I usually cheat and take up a bit of the syrup in a spoon  
and stick my fingertip into that. And I'm notoriously fireproof.

Adamantius