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2012
Winter
January - New Year
New year for new things to try, new resolutions to keep, and new goals to strive for. Here, I'm working on the same things. There are a ton of new products I'm itching to try in the world of sugar craft, as well as new books to read (like The Sweets of Araby, a new read from Countryman Press).
Goals and resolutions kind of merge into similar things, so for this year, I'm not doing any resolutions, and instead focusing on goals that I want to accomplish. I've found for some reason goals are easier to stick to by simple methods of deduction whereas resolutions sometimes seem unattainable. We'll see how many of my 'goals' I can reach by years end. :)
Enjoy the season, and thanks for your patronage!
Renee.
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Email Newsletter Recipe:
Plain Chocolate Caramels
This recipe is from Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes, a little chocolate cookbook printed in 1909.
- 2 1/2 cups of sugar
- 3/4 cup of glucose (pure corn syrup)
- 1/2 cup of butter
- 1/8 teaspoonful of cream of tartar
- 2 1/2 cups of whole milk, (not skimmed)
- 2 1/2 squares of Baker's Chocolate
- 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract
Put the sugar, glucose, butter, cream of tartar and one cup of the milk over the fire, stir constantly, and when the mass has boiled a few moments, gradually stir in the rest of the milk. Do not let the mixture stop boiling while the milk is being added. Stir every few moments and cook to 248° F., or, until when tested in cold water, a hard ball may be formed; add the chocolate and vanilla and beat them thoroughly through the candy, then turn it into two bread pans. When nearly cold cut into squares.
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In
Season: Now is the time to look for these fruit and vegetables
in season. This list may differ
from what you have locally available:
- grapes
- pomegranate
- tomatoes
- pumpkin, squash
- blackberries, mulberries
- stone fruits
- beets
- apples, pears
- carrots
- pineapple
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Recipes
A
favorite hobby of mine is to collect historic and out of print
pastry cookbooks. From my collection, here is another entry all about ratafias.
Two orginal recipes:
"Ratafia d'Œillets. --The petals of clove pinks, with the white parts pulled off, four pounds, cinnamon and clovesproof spirit one gallon, sugar three pounds. Infuse for a month, filter, and bottle."
"Vespetro. --Coriander seed one ounce, angelica seed two ounces, fennel and anise-seed of each two drachms, two lemons, two oranges, the zest of two citrons, two quarts of rectified spirit and two pounds of sugar, caraway seeds, yellow rind of the lemons and oranges, and squeeze the juice and sugar in a pint of water. Infuse the whole together for fourteen days. Strain, filter, and bottle."
Read here for more old-style recipes for ratafias.
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