Alexis wrote:

>
> I think I may have solved my baking/oven problem though - at least I
> will have solved it by November. I found this propane oven in the REI
> catalogue: http://tinyurl.com/dpzfj. it's a portable camp oven that
> uses regular bottled propane. According to the description, it will
> cook up to 400 degF for up to 4 hours -- much longer than I ever need
> for a school cooking project. Does anyone have any experience with
> these?
>

No, but in my first apartment straight out of college (an attic), the
landlord provided a two-burner hotplate, a toaster, and one of those
big electric roasters. I managed to bake successfully in it.

>
> With the help of our 6th grade buddy class, we made a large batch of
> cherry-flavored hard candy. We split it into six smaller batches and
> colored each one of those using one of five different colors of candy
> coloring (we left one batch clear) -- red, green, yellow, purple, and
> black.

results snipped
>
> We had hypothesized that there would be a direct connection to the
> color of the candy and the flavor "tasted" but none of us expected
> the influence of color to be nearly as dramatic as it was in this test
> group.


Try this with mashed potatoes sometime! You should get similar results.

gloria p