A Road Less Travelled

For Adiel, and any other potential marshmallow (or even sticky puff) chefs in the readership, here is a marshmallow recipe. This has some quite helpful and detailed information on the making of marshmallows, however it is not the marshmallow recipe I used because it calls for corn syrup. This recipe does not call for corn syrup, but it isn’t exactly the recipe I used either. I link to the above recipes for the sake of people who need more detail that I can give you. What I did was this–following the basic guidlines of the first recipe, I dissolved three packets of gelatin in a little maple syrup. Then I added it two cups of maple syrup and cooked it on the stove until I was pretty sure it was hot enough and cooked it some more just to make sure. Not having a mixer I poured it in the blender and mixed it until I was pretty sure it was fluffy and mixed it some more just to be sure. I poured it in my rectangular pan and let it set. (I messed up a little here–I should have greased the pan first, but I just dusted it with cocoa powder.) At about eleven o’ clock that night when I should have been in bed, I scored them with knife, pried them out of the pan with a fork, and doused them in cocoa powder. If you can make these without making your entire kitchen sticky I will be impressed, but they are much quicker and easier than I thought they would be before I made them. If you make marshmallows let me know how they turn out–and if you make stickypuffs I’d like to hear about that too. Edit 12/7/05– Marshmallow Addendum here