Brit-Speak: Food

[bluesqueak]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Kneasy wrote:
> > >The recipe says 6 tbsp - but that's almost impossible to measure
> accurately; half the syrup stays on the spoon! So  most add another
> spoon or two just to make sure. <snip>
> 
> Pippin suggested: 
> > Grease the spoon with cooking oil and the syrup won't stick.
>  
> 
> Carol adds:
> Or spray the spoon with Spam (the cooking spray, not the canned 
> spicedham!). But that would be un-British, I guess.


Pip!Squeak adds more:
A quick experiment shows that oiling the spoon works to some extent 
on Golden Syrup. It has no effect at all on Black Treacle. But then 
I've always suspected that Black Treacle has a secret life as a 
prime component in the road surfacing industry {g} Even getting  
Black Treacle out of the tin is notoriously difficult. 

Maybe Corn syrup (which is the closest North American syrup to 
Golden syrup, I think) has a lower viscosity than Golden Syrup? That 
would explain why oiling the spoon isn't a well known tip here; it 
doesn't work so well on our (thicker) syrups. 

Pip!Squeak