The bane of my existence this fine Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
I’ve been trying today to make Bacon, Butterscotch, Apple, Thyme. The Bacon, Apple, and Thyme have all been brilliant and easy.<\/p>\n
The Butterscotch has been a bit like my relationship with my ex girlfriend from Jersey; difficult in the face of tenacity.<\/p>\n
So far today I’ve tried to make butterscotch 5 times. The only reason I’m writing this now and not standing in the kitchen working on round 6 is because I’ve run out of cream and I think Sarah would hurt me if I left to go to the grocery a 3rd time today.<\/p>\n
I’ve gotten close. The first two times I was gunning for a prescribed temperature for my sugar of 350F, both of which resulted in a LOT of smoke in my kitchen. The second two times resulted in something that was edible but not dissimilar enough from my caramel last time to be satisfying. “Butterscotch” is a different word than “Caramel”, so I want them to taste different, dammit. 5th time was kind of a joke, a confirmation that I could repeat the bug. For my sanity, I need to be able to at least repeat something incorrectly to confirm I’m doing it wrong.<\/p>\n
It’s not a wash though; why else would I ever have had an excuse to figure out exactly how butterscotch differs from caramel (the interwebz tell me the secret lies in brown v. white sugar)? In the end I HAVE managed to come up with something edible, delicious, in fact. But it wasn’t very pretty, and I knew in my gut it wasn’t right. And ‘eh, close enough’ isn’t what this experiment is about. I want it to be ‘right’, and it’s not yet.<\/p>\n
So I’ll keep trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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