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Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 05 8:04 pm Post subject: Marshmallows

I'm currently trying to encourage myself to try a marshmallow recipe I found in the local library...being vegetarian I won't eat mass produced ones, and even if I eat meat again I still wouldn't trust the sources of gelatine - so the recipe I've found is scribbled down somewhere at home, I think it uses gelatine but I think I could substitute it with vegetarian gelatine. Which is probably not perfect either

H'anyway, has anyone here ever thought to make marshmallows?

I do love marshmallows, haven't had them for years and years...

If interest is shown I may be tempted to organise some piles of paperwork and find the recipe.

Then I can blame you lot for all the washing up.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 05 9:11 am Post subject:
I am truly amazed at the things I had no idea you could make. How do you make them go all fluffy? You can blame me for your washing up, if I can blame you for mine!

ButteryHOLsomeness

Joined: 03 Apr 2005
Posts: 770

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 05 9:51 am Post subject:

in the foods for free book it mentions that the pithy insides of reeds were used by the native americans as candy. they would set them by a fire where they would swell up into a puffy sweet mass... sounds like marshmallows to me

that also has me thinking that perhaps you could indeed do this with the marshmallow plant, if anyone knows please do tell!

i'd been meaning to ask about this recently,, so thanks bugs for bringing it up again

by the way bugs, if you haven't bought one of the tchibo food dehrdrators (or if you don't have one of your own already) you simply MUST get one and a copy of the mary bell 'complete food dehydrator cook book' she has soooo many excellent vegetarian recipes in there that we have been using (we're meat eaters but these are just sooooo good!)

i made onion, carrot, parsnip and potato crisps last night.

you lightly fry them all in a smidgon of oil til they are soft but not cooked through. then you add some seasoning before they go into the dehydrator. for mine i used a powder that i made from grinding up dehydrated onion, celery, red pepper and garlic! you just keep eating them and eating them, much better than any other crisps you've ever had, i promise!

there's another recipe for soy soaked crisps that aren't fried so i'm going to try that today, will let you know how that turns out!

sorry, i digress...

bugs, what IS your recipe for marshmallows anyway?

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 05 10:00 am Post subject:

ButteryHOLsomeness wrote:

by the way bugs, if you haven't bought one of the tchibo food dehrdrators

I cannot begin to tell you the trouble I am having getting them to deliver my order. Oh, all right, since you insist. Numerous emails and phone calls from me, and lies and incompetencies (from them) and over three weeks after placing the order, I must apparently wait up until next Friday for it to be delivered, before I can phone them and arrange for a SECOND one to be sent out because up until yesterday, they had no idea where the first one was because, and I quote, it was "too heavy" for the original carriers. What's it made of, lead?

Completely useless and after three weeks in transit I don't hold out much hope for its condition if it ever does arrive - possibly even as soon as Monday, oooh, lucky old me - after three weeks being slung about by couriers. So at this rate I'm very unlikely to be owning a dehydrator any time soon.

Rant over.

The marshmallow recipe is kind of meringuey, whisked egg whites and sugar syrup being in there of course, plus gelatine to keep it soft, and I think the flavouring is flexible. It does sound quite feasible, unfortunately the book was in the reference section and I can't find it in the shops, so have had to rely on scribbles and I don't know where the rec. is at the moment. I'll definitely pop it up here soon as I find it

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 8:03 am Post subject:

ButteryHOLsomeness wrote:

If you'd also looked up marshmallow in Food for Free, you'd know that yes, you cartainly can!

I've done it once with some marshmallow roots that were dug up when a site with a pond was redeveloped; otherwise, if you encounter the marshmallow in the wild, leave it well alone. It's rather uncommon.

You've got two options really; there's the 'blitz it up, put it on a fire on a shovel and hope' approach, and then there's the one that is better, tastier, and more reliable. Such recipes as this one:

https://www.fareshare.net/recipesV4-10M.html#Marshmallow%20Sweets

Marshmallow makes a great garden plant if you can find someone selling it. Great little pink flowers.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 8:56 am Post subject:
How much is the tchibo dryer? (although it sounds rather too big for kitchen!)

ButteryHOLsomeness

Joined: 03 Apr 2005
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 8:59 am Post subject:

cab wrote:

If you'd also looked up marshmallow in Food for Free, you'd know that yes, you cartainly can!

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sorry, we've been tidying up and now i can't find anything, including my new foods for free book!

ButteryHOLsomeness

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 9:02 am Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

How much is the tchibo dryer? (although it sounds rather too big for kitchen!)

if you read this entire thread you'll find the link for the dryer with the correct order number (doesn't come up in searches) and you'll find my instructions for how to get a £5 discount if you're a new customer

https://forum.downsizer.net/about2742.html&highlight=dehydrator

cab

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 10:07 am Post subject:

ButteryHOLsomeness wrote:

sorry, we've been tidying up and now i can't find anything, including my new foods for free book!

Oh, I didn't meen to sound chastising.

More common than the marshmallow, in many parts of Britain, is the common mallow. The leaves make a nice soup, but I've yet to hear of anyone doing anything with the roots (like the marshmallow).

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 3:15 pm Post subject:
I heard that's where the name cam from - they used to roots to make it, but it was only anecdotal heresay, so its likely to be something someone made up along the line! Thanks buttery, I'll check out the dryer thread.

jema
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 4:14 pm Post subject:
Too heavy my a**e Funny isn't it how they can manage to wreck a reputation like that.

Bugs

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Posted: Tue May 31, 05 2:04 pm Post subject:
I've bought a little book (you know those £1 or so ones, about the size of a post card, that do "Irish teatime recipes" and "Sussex Recipes" etc?) of sweets and toffee recipes and there's a whole recipe for marshmallows in it. Bouncey bouncey Bugs

cab

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Posted: Tue May 31, 05 2:52 pm Post subject:

I might split my marshmallow plant this autumn, see if I can't get three or four.

There's an odd coloured mallow of some sort grows behind my (rather barren) currants. Not complaining about the currants, you understand, they're two year old cuttings now, they get one more year to earn their keep. It gets more pale flowers than common mallow, and it tends to creep along the ground a bit. I've cut it back all the way through last year, but I kept it in 'cos it's pretty, and growing on such a poor patch of soil it seems a shame to put anything off.

I should also consider collecting some marshmallow seed this year, I never seem to get round to it.

ButteryHOLsomeness

Joined: 03 Apr 2005
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Posted: Tue May 31, 05 8:15 pm Post subject:
bugs can you please post the marshmallow recipe for us?

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Tue May 31, 05 9:03 pm Post subject:
Be happy to, only I'm not sure if I ought, because it would be taking it straight out of the book. I'm going to work out the vegegel version of it though, and I'd feel more comfortable posting that...and more comfortable still posting my version once I've tried it. Hmm, will take some thinking.

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