OT Barb Vlack's marshmallow recipe???

Leslie, if you have one of the big Kitchen Aide mixers, every minute on that is two minutes on any other mixer. Says so in the owner's manual and I know it's true when making bread.

Sunny

No, Sunny, I have a KitchenAid but it's a handheld mixer not one of the big guys on a stand. I knead my bread my hand, so I don't know how it compares for that, but I've never before found that it beats more than a 'normal' mixer.

But thanks for the thought.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

I use Barb's recipe all the time. It takes the bigger Kitchenaid mixer with the whip to keep it all in the bowl. Mine gets up toward the top, but doesn't escape. I doubt if anything went wrong....you just need the big bowl and mighty mixer.

Neither of these thoughts will be terribly helpful - but you also have humidity *and* temperature to deal with. As a World-Class praline maker (as well as a champ at making meringue cookies), I know just forget it if the humidity is high. It could be that you needed to have your concoction at a different temperature and I don't have a clue whether you needed to have it set in a bowl of hot water or ice cubes . . . just a thought, and/or the temperature in your kitchen could make a difference. I'm reminding me of a sign I kept in my office; something about considering the problem and being more confused but at a higher level. Polly

Polly, anytime you want to do any kind of meringue you just high tail it over to the desert. We don't too often have to deal with humidity problems. You've heard the lame 'dry heat' comments but they are true. lol I'm still carrying around half of the 10 lbs. Leslie's caramel recipe left on me. They were a really good though.

Taria

Polly Esther wrote:

We had 4% humidity yesterday. It's 8% tonight (8 PM)

Butterfly (and I'm on your way as you head off to Taria's)

I need the 10 pounds you gained. Actually, I think I'm going to need about a hundred pounds. We have a trip to make and I needed to hem some pants. They are the smallest available . . . and the legs look like I'm going to have to develop Thunder Thighs else I'm going to look like somebody packed up and moved out. When suffering through the hemming, I noticed that the leg seams are serged over elastic just in case I gain 120 pounds. Send the calories my way. It ain't easy being skinny. Polly

ATTENTION: All Members and Lurkers of R.C.T.Q.-

Each of us 'fluffy' quilters are now *REQUIRED* to send 10% of our body fat to our poor dear Polly so that she can look respectable for her upcoming trip. The extra kind and extra generous hearted among us may donate up to

20%. After that, the postage rates would be much too exorbitant for shipping the donation.

We shall all do this purely from the goodness of our hearts and ask absolutely nothing in return.

The line forms right behind me- I'm first!

Leslie of The Fluffiness & The Non-Fluffy Furbabies in MO.

PS: I first typed the subject line as 'help Polly fill her pants'. That just didn't sound right..... LOL

i'm sending 30%, Polly needs it and i need to be rid of it. perfect solution for both of us. happy to do my bit for our Ms Polly. smirk'n in the south pacific, jeanne

"Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." ...

I guess I'm 4th in line behind Leslie, Jeanne and Sunny. I have a feeling Polly won't need any after the 4 of us donate. I could probably donate another whole Polly! Would you like a twin??

Your recipe didn't go wrong and neither did you, it's your hand mixer. You said you used a hand mixer. It has two beaters and forms whirls that run each other and this forces its self up the sides and up under the mixer. The single beater/wisk on my big KitchenAid doesn't do this.

Val

Something tells me the world is not ready for me to have a twin. I am, however, delighted to have the fluff contributions. It seemed like a good idea to polish off the coconut cake I baked for Easter. Maybe there are some chocolate goodies left over in the Easter baskets. We won't care if the ears are bitten off. We need fat. Polly

"KJ" I guess I'm 4th in line behind Leslie, Jeanne and Sunny. I have a feeling

Well, Val. I declare. That makes so much sense. Not, of course, that we didn't know you had any sense. What I mean is I'd never understood why sometimes I've had a recipe do its best to climb the beaters and commit mayhem. So soon old, so late smart. Thanks, Val. Polly

"Val"

Hi Polly, to heck with percentages! I'll gladly send you 50 lbs of fat and you can spread it around where ever you need it. I do know what you mean about finding the size 0 and size 4 clothes. That is what my sister wears and I sometimes help her shop in the teen girls department. Barbara in FL

ROFLOL! I love it, Leslie!

Alas...I bet you are of the maturity and genetic make up where you have no empty fat cells to fill up and can't "grow" more. You probably couldn't get fat if you tried.

I haven't used that recipe (allergic to eggs), but I made Alton Brown's recipe

last December. Making marshmallows is not for the faint of heart, or at least, not for the underpowered mixer! I have a moderately powerful stand mixer, and the motor was pretty darned hot by the time I was done mixing. The stuff did climb up the sides of my 5 qt mixing bowl, but never made it all the way to the edge.

The end result was not nearly as airy as I remember store-bought being, but they were SO much better. DH, who has always said he hates marshmallows, stood by the pan and ate them non-stop. My quilting buddies all asked for take-home bags, too. :)

DH had that genetic make up -- until he hit 40. He now has a LOT more sympathy for me. :)

Good catch -- I missed the part where Leslie said she was using a hand mixer. Yes, this is *definitely* a job for a stand mixer.