{"id":200,"date":"2014-09-11T13:11:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onpleasurefulpastry.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2014-09-11T13:11:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T20:11:26","slug":"there-is-definitely-a-candy-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onpleasurefulpastry.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/11\/there-is-definitely-a-candy-goddess\/","title":{"rendered":"There is Definitely a Candy Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\">I wish to taste the sweetness of life; I wish to have the sugar speak for me&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">No historical recipe interests and challenges me more than Cream Candy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a title=\"Confectionery Balance Brought Forward\" href=\"https:\/\/onpleasurefulpastry.wordpress.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=143&amp;action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a previous post<\/a> I alluded to its lure: provocative in texture with a fineness of interior. \u00a0What went unsaid is the utter madness I feel in trying to perfect it&#8230; <em>hell, in just trying to execute it<\/em>&#8230; without failure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Not every failed recipe attempt is my fault, though it feels like it&#8217;s my fault. The cream candy recipe I first came in contact with was completely non-standardized. Three ingredients cooked to some nameless temperature, the successful texture of which could only be vaguely described as a blob sinking or swimming in a cup of cold water with some sort of visual appropriateness. No blame on my shoulders here; old recipes had no standardization, and I knew that going in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">It gets so much worse. When I then have the courage to pour the nameless, formless, colorless mass out onto a marble slab or a frozen sheet pan (did I mention without touching or stirring), I stare at it in guarded horror as if it might either take wing or eat a hole through the table. That&#8217;s because I know what&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">The candy-in-waiting must be pulled and pulled until one moment before my arms fall off. Preferably in cold weather. With zero humidity in the atmosphere. In Portland. There is definitely a Candy Goddess, and she&#8217;s laughing her ass off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">At this stage, one of two things happens. Either the pulled candy mixture seizes without the slightest warning which is my most common outcome, or it doesn&#8217;t which means I still have at least one more chance to ruin it. \u00a0In the confectioner&#8217;s playbook, I&#8217;m supposed to pull it into strings of similar circumference, then cut it into bite-sized pieces to &#8220;cream&#8221; overnight. Only once have I gotten that far. It was the time I had first degree burns on my fingertips from picking the hot mixture up too soon, so I was salving my fingers as I congratulated myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">If the end product weren&#8217;t so damned good, so exceptional, so unlike anything else in the marketplace, I&#8217;d have long ago dropped it like a prom dress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Anyway, <em>simplicity does not equal success<\/em>. <em>Effort does not equal success.<\/em>\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also noticed that whining and swearing have not yet equaled success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">So, this is a great little recipe to chronicle. I can promise you (and myself) a roller coaster ride, but I&#8217;m determined to be crowned Cream Candy Lady. I guess aloe vera can be considered a business expense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em><strong>I wish to have the sugar speak for me&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish to taste the sweetness of life; I wish to have the sugar speak for me&#8230; No historical recipe interests and challenges me more than Cream Candy. 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