How To Make Divinity In High Humidity

Divinity, made a little easier by using marshmallow creme.

Never Fail Divinity

Starting time things first. {pulls out hissy fit soapbox} Calling a recipe "no neglect," or "never fail" is spring to be risky because without fail, somebody is gonna come along who doesn't follow the directions and withal, will arraign the recipe, or even me, for their failure.

The truth is, this never fail version of divinity has been around at least as long equally, or possibly fifty-fifty longer, than me, and it truly is no fail - if you follow directions. Thousands of folks have been making it successfully for many years, just like any divinity, shortcut or non, y'all must beat the hot sugar.

You must beat it until it is no longer shiny, but begins to dull in appearance.

You must shell information technology until you beat in enough air that it cools and begins to thicken.

You lot will know when its prepare, and if it's sparse equally syrup, it's not ready. Keep chirapsia.

Yes. You must crush it until you think your arm is gonna fall off! I you do that, I promise, it works. {tucking away the soapbox}

Divinity is a candy that is primarily made simply around the Christmas holidays in the South. At that place are a number of reasons for that, the primary one being Southern conditions, particularly in the Deep South where humidity rules the atmosphere most of the time. Humidity equals moisture, and moisture equals candy that ofttimes won't set up.

Even in the cooler and less humid months, it tin can be a challenge to brand old fashioned divinity - that beingness a divinity that is purely saccharide, corn syrup, water, egg whites, chopped pecans, a niggling vanilla - and a goodly amount of elbow grease. Of course, divinity isn't necessarily a Southern confection, but pretty much every Southerner has a recipe of their own, and a memory, centered around a tray of sweet, sugary divinity.

Perfect bootleg divinity is not an like shooting fish in a barrel chore to pull off in my opinion. Besides conditions, timing is everything, beating it just right, knowing when to end chirapsia, and being able to spoon it down very rapidly earlier it begins to set, all brand a deviation. Every single Christmas I plan to make my Mama's former fashioned holiday divinity and every single year the weather doesn't cooperate on the day I have fix bated to make it. If it'due south nearly to pelting, has just rained, or is raining, forget nearly it.

If it's hot and humid outside - the norm in the Deep South - information technology doesn't thing what you set your air conditioner on inside, your divinity will withal likely fail and never set. Yes. We run our air conditioners in the calendar month of Dec downwardly here. So, every year, before yous know it, the vacation has come and gone and no divinity comes from my kitchen.

Besides that, it'southward practically a team effort to become information technology right and yous really well-nigh need more than than two hands to make information technology. My mother in law, her sister and a friend of theirs, gather each year to make massive batches of divinity for Christmas, and it's quite a production, taking them literally hours to practice.

Anyhow, because of all that, many of us have turned to shortcut methods using the microwave, or adding in things like baking pulverisation, packets of gelatin and marshmallow creme, or whatever works to easily stabilize things and not have to deal with the less convenient, old fashioned ways. This shortcut version has really been around a long time and it uses marshmallow creme, an ingredient that anybody who makes fudge is familiar with, for some of those very same candy-making challenges. Making a true, homemade fudge is also difficult and temperamental just add in marshmallow creme and voilà, it magically transforms that sugar. It still doesn't injure to follow the same basic principles of divinity making, and then I've included the tips from my old fashioned divinity at the bottom.

My husband actually likes this version of divinity better than the quondam fashioned divinity and says, "this is the style that divinity is supposed to gustation." Well, in my opinion, none of the shortcut versions will e'er come across up to Mama's quondam fashioned, homemade version, but I do have to say, this 1 actually is pretty darned expert.

Hither'south how to make it.

Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper; set bated. Place marshmallow creme in a large, metal or estrus safe bowl; set aside. In a medium saucepan, add the sugar, water and salt.

Heat over medium high heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a full rolling boil. Let boil without stirring for 2 minutes, and no longer. Immediately pour the unabridged sugar syrup over the marshmallow creme and using a wooden spoon, brainstorm to carefully shell the syrup into the creme.

Important: Trounce the mixture until it begins to dull and no longer has a sheen. Just like any other divinity, you must vanquish it long enough, then don't lose patience with the process! Mixture will thicken once you beat in enough cool air and it begins to look dull and non shiny. If you lot try to driblet information technology when information technology is still as well hot and thin, information technology will not concord its shape and it is not ready! Continue to trounce it. Yous volition know when it is fix.

Once thickened, mix in the vanilla and pecan and work quickly to driblet mixture by spoonfuls onto the parchment and garnish with a pecan half, if desired. Candied cherries are besides very pretty. Set aside to dry out for several hours before storing. How many you become will depend on how you drop them - more often than not somewhere between about 24 to 40.

Don't worry that your divinity isn't movie perfect little rounds of white clouds. The rustic looking drops is what gives it character and defines it as homemade. Divinity, whether made the one-time fashioned way, or using a shortcut, should never be difficult or dry and brittle, or grainy and clumpy looking, but light, airy and with a creamy, soft seize with teeth. Leave uncovered overnight to allow it to air dry before storing. I like to place the whole tray into the common cold oven and leave them there overnight.

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Posted past Mary on December 18, 2012

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