[HPforGrownups] Re: Rejoice, for another candy debate cometh!

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 12994

Amy, Dinah, Doreen and Dee were musing about treacle, fudge and toffee like
a bunch of New Age Stepford Wives... oh, and Spotted Dick got a mention
again.

Neil thought: 'Heavens above!  Not treacle again...'   We discussed treacle
to death in the old Yahoo club, so there are about 20 messages on the
subject in the Archives, including some recipes, believe it or not.  Here's
one of mine that conveniently mentioned Spotted Dick as well:-

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups-Archives/message/5789

If you go the archives and run a search on the word "treacle" you'll get all
the other messages.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups-Archives

Fudge and toffee are different things and I suspect they are the same
different things in the UK and elsewhere.  Fudge often tastes like toffee
because it's made by boiling up sugar, butter and milk, whereas chewy toffee
is usually based on sugar and butter only.  Adding milk gives it the
fudge-like texture (I think we're agreed on the difference between these two
things).  It seems that JKR confused them, but I need to check my UK
editions.

Various things can be used to flavour fudge and toffee, treacle being one of
them (it would replace some of the sugar), so you can have treacle toffee
and treacle fudge as well as the regular kind.

Dee - Turkish Delight is made with gelatine, usually dusted with icing
sugar.  It's typically flavoured with rosewater and sometimes has nuts in it
(almonds I think).  Truffles (the sweet kind) are a sort of luxurious
chocolate paste balls coated in cocoa, chocolate powder or vermicelli.  I
can imagine Honeydukes having somehting like these, but under a different
name.

Every one of these things will rot your teeth and turn you all into
gap-toothed crones.  You have to pay for pleasure <g>

Hmmmm.  It's difficult to declare this thread completely off-topic, because
it concerns terms mentioned in the books.  However, if we get started on
recipes again, let's at least move that to OTChatter!  Perhaps one of the
other Mods will rap my knuckles for encouraging this thread ;-)

Neil

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