Cooking Thermometers

I do not have a candy thermometer and have attempted to make vanilla fudge several times (going by dropping a dab of the mixture into cold water to see if it is at soft ball stage) but it never seems to come out quite right. I have a regular cooking thermometer, is there a way [...]

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I tasted some really good melt in your mouth caramels. The gal gave me the recipe when I tried to make it, it didn’t turn out. My caramels stuck to my teeth and were kind of hard. My question is what did I do wrong? Did I let the caramel mixture get too hot or [...]

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