[Sca-cooks] honey

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What are you trying to make?

Katherine

On 4/22/2016 3:10 PM, Susan Lord wrote:
> I am not getting a handle on honey. As per the 13th Century Al Andalus MS there are several sweets calling for honey. See Perry/Friendman’s translation http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Andalusian/andalusian_contents.htm <http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Andalusian/andalusian_contents.htm>.
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> I bought a candy thermometer but after 220 degrees I burn the honey. Either it turns out too burned and hard or too soft.
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> My cleaning woman likes the hard version. When her husband talks too much she pops a ball into his mouth and he spends the rest of the evening sucking it.  But that’s not the point!
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