On Nov 29, 7:36*pm, Melba's Jammin' >
wrote:
> In article >,
>
> *Sqwertz > wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:19:16 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe wrote:
> > > I pour the cooked syrup onto a buttered marble slab,
>
> > That's what I was afraid of. a buttered slab is totally unnecessary
> > for toffee. *It's not ice cream.
>
> > -sw
>
> Maybe. *And maybe he has a marble slab and wants to use it. *Pfftthhbbt.

The marble slab is a top to an antique washstand (whatever that is?)
that my Ex wife got from her mother, who got it from her mother. It
was acquiring this marble slab that was actually the progenitor of my
decision to start making candy, because I knew that there's no better
surface on which to pour hot hard crack candy syrup on. Like this
English Toffee. I've made other hard crack stage candies on it too.

John Kuthe...