LadyJane wrote:

> Gads that comment took me back...
> Home Economics circa 1972....today class will be making marshmallows!
> And in all honesty, in the 35 years since that class, I have never
> made them again. One of the (many) distinctly useless things we were
> taught at school.
> I used to love marshmallows, but once I made them lost my desire...
> must have been all that glucose & sugar syrup!
> We each used a different colouring... mine were blue. The most hideous
> was a vivid green and another dark purple. No one at my home would
> touch them... hehehe. Think the dog ended up having most of them on
> reflection.

I've been wanting to make real marshmallows -- using the marshmallow
plant rather than sugar and glucose. One of these days I'll track down
a source for the marshmallow plants.

--Charlene

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