[Sca-cooks] Sponge sugar
Kathleen A Roberts
karobert at unm.edu
Wed Aug 1 12:52:33 PDT 2007
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:01:16 -0400
"Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius"
<adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure I remember this is supposed to be made
>from a
> caramelized, hard-crack sugar syrup, to which something
>like baking
> soda (sodium bicarbonate, generally) and a small dash of
>vinegar have
> been added, producing the foamy effect you describe.
yeppers, never tried to make it myself but i have two or
three irish cookbooks with it in them.
googling yellowman candy (which came up toffee) got this:
http://www.astray.com/recipes/?show=Yellowman%20toffee
as opposed to the evidently singing group of a similar
name.
cailte
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