Love the soups
Linzi fab link thank you!
I made the most amazing fudge yesterday. It was my first attempt and I didn't have a sugar thermometer, and it turned out so well I have to share the recipe.
Crumbly sea salt and vanilla fudge
400g (1lb) brown sugar
50g caster sugar
85g (3oz) salted butter
150ml (¼ pt) milk
175g (6oz) evaporated milk
Few drops of vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon of fine sea salt
A little vegetable oil
Tip the sugar, butter, milk and evaporated milk into a heavy based pan and heat gently, stirring frequently, until the sugar has dissolved. Takes about 5 mins, just keep stirring until you can't feel the sugar grains.
Then bring to the boil stirring as little as you can, and continue boiling until a temperature of 116°C (240°F) is reached on a sugar thermometer. If you don't have one of these, you can test if the fudge is at this temperature by spooning a small amount of the syrup into some iced water, it should form a soft ball. Have attached a picture of what this looks like. It took much longer than I thought, and was bubbling away for about 20 minutes before it reached the soft ball stage.
Take off the heat, and once it has stopped bubbling carefully beat the mixture with a wooden spoon for about 3 mins, until it has thickened and lost its gloss. Beat the vanilla and sea salt into the mix.
Pour into a shallow dish, greased with a little oil or butter. I used a shallow glass pyrex dish, but you can use a tin.
Leave to cool for at least 30 mins, probably more. I cut mine into long bars using a pizza cutter and then snapped into rough blocks. Remember this is crumbly fudge and not soft and squidgy.
It is quite honestly the loveliest fudge ever, it's crumbly, creamy, melts in the mouth and is very moreish.
. I would have thought the bath water would have been more than sufficient to dilute the colouring though. Certainly shop bought stuff I have had that colours the water has never stained me or the bath. I draw the line at glitter though - I used a glitter bath bomb once, never again. I was vajazzled for weeks before vajazzling was heard of.
I can't for the life of me remember where I saw it earlier but someone had done up bags of mini-mallows and called them "Ghost Poop" 
