Passionfruit Marshmallows, Waiting to Be Cut
There Is Something So Luscious About Marshmallows
Marshmallow Whipping
30 seconds of passionfruit marshmallows whipping.
(Whip it good.)
30 seconds of marshmallows whipping (near the end of the process, just before adding the vanilla).
Marshmallows Bubbling
From a few nights ago — 30 seconds of marshmallows bubbling.
Questions that Need Answers
The jaggery milk toffee experiment came out well, whew! It has been dutifully packed up all pretty (along with an order of passionfruit marshmallows, an order of freshly-roasted curry powder, and a copy of Feast) for its intended recipient.
I would’ve been sad if I’d ruined a whole batch of milk toffee by daring to put in some jaggery instead of all white sugar.
It is definitely more on the ‘toffee’ side — it’s a little chewy; I put that down to the different moisture level in jaggery vs. white sugar. Which makes me wonder whether milk toffee originally might have been made entirely with jaggery and no white sugar at all, in which case, it might’ve been much more of an actual toffee originally?
As opposed to what we typically eat now, which has a consistency that’s sort of like fudge, but even more like maple candy, if you’re familiar with that New England delight.
Why don’t I have a food historian on tap, is what I want to know. I have questions, people. Questions that NEED answers…
Butter Melting ASMR
30 seconds of watching and listening butter melt into the jaggery milk toffee, which might have been nice ASMR, if it weren’t for the impatiently barking Ellie who really thought I should be getting her evening treats instead of wasting my time cooking…
A Whole Stick of Butter
Melting in a whole stick of butter to the jaggery milk toffee (almost the last step).
Cashews for the Toffee
Adding cashews to the jaggery milk toffee.
Jaggery in Place of Brown Sugar
30 seconds of milk toffee bubbling. This is an unusual batch — I didn’t have enough white sugar, so I made up the difference with jaggery (which is similar to brown sugar); I wasn’t sure if it would turn out. It definitely looked somewhat different while cooking.
Not Really a Filter Girl
Yesterday morning’s curry powder grinding. I couldn’t seem to get my iPhone to capture the colors correctly — it was all coming out much more cool and washed out than my eyes were seeing them. So I ended up trying the ‘warm vivid’ filter — and it’s a little TOO warm, but closer to reality than the unfiltered version.
I’m not really a filter girl, but this was interesting.
