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Congratulations to Alicat, Michelle and Sky. They each will receive Cook Until Desired Tenderness, by Cleo Papanikolas, as they were the first to correctly identify the fake stage was:
D. Glass
Feather, the most popular guess, was indeed a stage of sugar cooking, according to the 17th century text, Le Confiturier francois
"Cooked to the feather....it is recognized by placing a spatula in the syrup, and shaking the syrup in the air; the syrup flies away as if dry feathers without stickiness..."
Personally I thought Pearl sounded the most unlikely!
Read more about The History of Sugars and Confectionary in On Food and Cooking, by Harold McGee. For those of you following along at home, the answer to the contest is in the section on Stages of Sugar Cooking in the 17th Century, on page 651.
- The Keys To Good Cooking By Harold Mcgee
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Congratulations to Sandy, Jesse, Emily, Cindy, Susan, Phaedrus, Lee, Jackie, Anonymous (with an email) and Kyle, the winners of The United States of Arugula! As of this morning a total of 10 people had correctly answered all the very tough trivia questions....
- American Food Contest
It's time for another contest! This time, courtesy of Knopf, Cooking with Amy will be awarding three copies of David Burke's New American Classics. You can read my review of the book here. Only one entry per person, so choose carefully! Remember,...
- Contest: Tomato Sauce Trivia
The answer to yesterdays contest comes from Harold McGee's masterpeice On Food and Cooking (page 330 for those reading along). "Because tomato leaves have a pronounced fresh-tomato aroma thanks to their leaf enzymes and prominent aromatic oil glands,...
- Biddy
I love words. I love discovering new words or being surprised by words I thought I knew the meaning of, for example, I thought I knew what a biddy was. It turns out that a biddy is a chicken and the use of the word dates back to the 17th century. Sometime...
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Contest Winners
Congratulations to Alicat, Michelle and Sky. They each will receive Cook Until Desired Tenderness, by Cleo Papanikolas, as they were the first to correctly identify the fake stage was:
D. Glass
Feather, the most popular guess, was indeed a stage of sugar cooking, according to the 17th century text, Le Confiturier francois
"Cooked to the feather....it is recognized by placing a spatula in the syrup, and shaking the syrup in the air; the syrup flies away as if dry feathers without stickiness..."
Personally I thought Pearl sounded the most unlikely!
Read more about The History of Sugars and Confectionary in On Food and Cooking, by Harold McGee. For those of you following along at home, the answer to the contest is in the section on Stages of Sugar Cooking in the 17th Century, on page 651.
- The Keys To Good Cooking By Harold Mcgee
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Congratulations to Sandy, Jesse, Emily, Cindy, Susan, Phaedrus, Lee, Jackie, Anonymous (with an email) and Kyle, the winners of The United States of Arugula! As of this morning a total of 10 people had correctly answered all the very tough trivia questions....
- American Food Contest
It's time for another contest! This time, courtesy of Knopf, Cooking with Amy will be awarding three copies of David Burke's New American Classics. You can read my review of the book here. Only one entry per person, so choose carefully! Remember,...
- Contest: Tomato Sauce Trivia
The answer to yesterdays contest comes from Harold McGee's masterpeice On Food and Cooking (page 330 for those reading along). "Because tomato leaves have a pronounced fresh-tomato aroma thanks to their leaf enzymes and prominent aromatic oil glands,...
- Biddy
I love words. I love discovering new words or being surprised by words I thought I knew the meaning of, for example, I thought I knew what a biddy was. It turns out that a biddy is a chicken and the use of the word dates back to the 17th century. Sometime...