Name: Caramel Powder
Ingredients: 1 Free Flow Recipe

You cannot break men’s hearts by jesting with them, or telling them a smooth tale, or pronouncing a gaudy oration. Men will not cast away their dearest pleasures at the drowsy request of one that seems not to mean as he speaks, or to care much whether his request be granted or not. If you say that the work is God’s, and He may do it by the weakest means, I answer, It is true, He may do so; but yet His ordinary way is to work by means, and to make not only the matter that is preached, but also the manner of preaching instrumental to the work.

Richard Baxter

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Condiment, Ceideburg 2	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

Free Flow Recipe

INSTRUCTIONS

For years one of my favorite things has been the sheets of "caramel"
that resulted when I baked a ham and the glazing ran down onto the
foil lined baking pan, then set up.  Never occurred to me to use it
in a recipe, but it did to someone at Sunset Magazine.  The
illustration in the magazine shows the flan garnished with crunched
up chunks of the un powdered caramel.
Line a 10- by 15-inch baking pan with a single sheet of foil, folding
up at edges.
Pour 2 cups sugar into a 10- to 12-inch nonstick frying pan, place
over medium-high heat. Shake pan often until most of the sugar
liquefies, about 10 minutes.  Reduce heat to medium; tilt pan to mix
hot caramel with sugar until all is melted and the color is deep
amber, 3 to 5 ea minutes.
Immediately pour hot caramel into foil-lined pan.  Using hot pads to
protect hands (mixture is very hot), tilt pan to spread caramel in
thin layer. Set aside until hard and completely cool, about 30
minutes.
When cool, lift foil from pan; peel foil from caramel.  Break caramel
into chunks.  To make powder, whirl chunks in a blender or food
processor fitted with metal blade (container must be completely dry).
If you use a blender, you may need to make powder in several batches.
Use, or store airtight at room temperature for up to 1 month.
Makes about 1 3/4 cups.
Posted by Stephen Ceideburg; February 27, 1991.
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/cberg2.zip

A Message from our Provider:

“Actions DO speak louder than words. Do Jesus’?”