I decided to do some cooking with my kids, and show them the magic of making cinder toffee, as I did when I was younger.
If youve never done this, and you have kids, its a good way to impress them. Basically, you boil, sugar, water and golden syrup together, with half a teaspoon of vinegar, then when it reaches a certain temp, throw in half a teaspoon of bicar of soda, and it all fizzes up in a froth....you then pour it in a tin and let it harden, and hey presto!! cinder toffee, or the inside of a crunchie to you and me.
well it was all going swimmingly until, i decided to tell them to be extremely careful about boiling sugar syrup, as it is FAR hotter than boiling water......, and then proceeded to dip my wooden spoon into the syrup, blow the bit of syrup, so i could taste test it.....then i dipped my finger in the syrup on the spoon
:eeek: omfg, its was hotter than the depths of hell and the bloody toffee started to meld with the skin on my fingertip, so out of instinct, i stuck my hot finger in my mouth(as you would)
onlt to have the evil sweetie of satan stick (still boiling) to my feckin upper lip!!!! :censored:
so i run to the tap to get my finger under the cold water, and bravely carry on with my 'trick' of adding the bi carb to the toffee.
just then, mr bone walked in with a new snake we have just aquired, and stole my bloody thunder,as the kids were far more interested in that, than my feeble cinder toffee......
and to add insult to injury, while i was administering first aid to myself under the tap, i burned the sugar syrup, and the toffee tastes flippin awful :upset:
so please, please can someone show me some sympathy and make me feel better, as i am now left with a HUGE blister on my left middle finger, and one on my upper lip!! :therethere: and half a pound of burnt toffee
assionkiss: :passionkiss: 
