On 12/21/2017 7:53 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
> On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 3:40:05 AM UTC-6, Ophelia wrote:
>> "John Kuthe" wrote in message
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>> I'll have all my 2017 Christmas Candies made! Or at least all the
>> ingredients in house to make them! :-)
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>> John Kuthe...
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>> Enjoy
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> Thanks!! :-) It's a lot of damned work, but this is what I do for Christmas!! And my nephew Paul in Portland OR was making some of HIS English Toffee, and his English Toffee is VERY Old Skool!! He does not even use a candy thermometer, and he only uses butter and SUGAR, and has always used only WHITE sugar, but last evening he only had in-house enough white sugar to have about 3/4 of the amount of white sugar he needed for one batch and all he could find in his kitchen was some light brown sugar, and not only did it cook down very satisfactorily, after he poured it out, he said it practically SLID out of the cook pot rather than having to be practically chip it out!! Very interesting development and I have yet to hear from him on how it tastes/eats.
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> MAY be a new beneficial development!! We are thinking of going into the English Toffee business as it WAS one of the FIRST candies I made which is how my nephew Paul was introduced to the fine old art of Candymaking!! And as my nephew Paul has moved into a new career in life (Life and Business Coaching, he is REALLY good at it and people like him, unlike me!) when we were discussing it he immediately when into business coaching mode and said Then we need to figure out how to automate the production process" and I immediately said "NO! This will be "Old Skool English Toffee", the same one-pot at a time production method!! That's it's allure!"
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> I have to email him this AM and find out how it worked/tasted!!
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> John Kuthe...
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Here's a possible resource you could tap as well.
I don't know if they'd share a lot of their process with you or not, but
whenever we get to Scottsdale we always stop here for the best toffee in
the entire Southwest!!!!
https://www.goodytwos.com/
https://www.goodytwos.com/pages/contact-us
If nothing else peruse their products and do a bit of back-engineering.
I promise you there is no finer toffee.