On May 15, 9:15*am, Janet > wrote:
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> > >How long has it been for you? I went to the circus last week and for $5
> > >I relished eating cotton candy on a paper cone. Haven't had it for
> > >40yrs. It was as delicious as I remember.
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> > >I received a fair share of dirty looks from parents who wouldnt spend
> > >that much money whose children saw me relishing mine and began to whine.
> > >$5 is awfully steep-sheesh it was $16 just to walk thru the gate. (I had
> > >the opportunity to get up close and personal with a tiger in his
> > >restrictive tiny cage 6feet away from me trying to get out of his cage
> > >silently...wow!)
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> > >So it brings me to this question-have you ever made cotton candy (do
> > >tell) and while I know they sell an appliance for it, is it possible to
> > >make it stovetop?
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> > My first cooking experiment was *trying* to make cotton candy. . *with
> > *Genuine* *sterilized* cotton. * [anything sterilized can't hurt you,
> > right? -- and genuine=good]
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> > Tom and I were 6 or 7. * * Neither of our parents would buy us the
> > 1/2dollar cotton candy at the fair. * * *We saw the bag of cotton
> > balls in his mom's cupboard and figured 'what the heck'.
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> > All we knew about the process was that it involved sugar and spinning.
> > we added the water because nothing seemed to be happening.
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> > If you want to try this at home, all we can say is that a pound or 2
> > of sugar, a bag of cotton balls, water enough to make a slurry-- and
> > beating with a handheld mixer on high until the mixer dies *won't*
> > give you cotton candy. * * It doesn't taste all that bad, but is
> > difficult to chew-- and too much will give you a belly-ache.
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> > The bellyache faded in comparison to the ass-whupping we both got.
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> *LOL. I didn't know my family has relatives over there.
> * My childrens' nursery encouraged infants to cook from scratch and the
> eldest in particular had some terrible culinary inspirations.
> Unfortunately for his hungry brothers most of them were technically
> edible... eggs fried in the sun direct on the car bonnet; *midget fish
> caught in the river, post mortemed on the garden table and baked (or not)
> in the heat of the compost heap. It was a relief when they got old enough
> to light campfires, at least the food was sterilised by heat...
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> * Janet.

The first thing I learned to cook, or maybe I should say the first two
things we
inside round steak fried in butter, and Kraft Mac N' Cheese.
I learned to scramble eggs somewhere along that time. Get the butter
good and hot but not brown.