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Default 2010 English Toffee, uncovered!

On Nov 29, 8:48*pm, John Kuthe > wrote:
> 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...


I'm jealous.