On Nov 29, 7:48*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...

Actually, I believe English toffee is soft-crack candy, not hard
crack. At least in my world.

N.

(An antique washstand is just that - it was meant to hold a bowl and
pitcher set for "washing up" in one's bedroom - before self-contained
all-purpose inside bathrooms were the standard. There would maybe be
a towel bar to hang a towel and/or wash cloth on. You would pour
water from the pitcher into the bowl, and use the washcloth.)