[Sca-cooks] fondant

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 8, 2007, at 10:37 PM, Devra at aol.com wrote:

> Oh, no, it's not that bad. Now what I really dislike is sugar  
> plate, which
> tastes like Necko wafers, which taste like nothing...
>     Devra, remembering licorice Nekko  disks

My mother _claims_ to have experienced some sort of sugar-based  
spontaneous combustion while snapping a Necco wafer in two...  
apparently they were larger in 1926 or so...

I didn't believe this story until there was a huge explosion in a  
Brooklyn factory making Chiclets gum several years ago (I mean,  
during my lifetime, well documented by the news media and such), in  
which airborne powdered sugar was ignited by a spark. Apparently this  
happens occasionally in grain silos and flour mills, too.

Adamantius



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brioche!" / "If there's no bread, you have to say, let them eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

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