BlackForest, fir trees do something to the air to give it such a clean fresh smell. The scent of the fir tree is the reason, I believe. Enjoy your scenic area, I bet it is expensive, your area.
Fondant: 4 parts of sugar {table sugar}to one part water by weight, not volume and add 1/4 cup of acid, vinegar or lemon juice. Bring to moderate boil which at sea level will be 234F and maintain this temp for 15 minutes. Let cool and shape at will. If the fondant is gooey, sticky, unworkable, then the temp was to low. If the fondant is hard not workable then the temp was to high.
A little chemistry, if you hate chemistry, I understand and apologize so skip the following: The table sugar is composed of glucose and fructose, 50% of each joined together. The heating with acid breaks apart the sugar into individual sugars of glucose and fructose. The process is called inversion, because when heated with acid the sugar reverts to its basic components. So why not call the process reversion: easy answer,,,, that would be to easy and make use of common sense which is prohibited in science.
Honeybees have a chemical in their stomach called invertase which inverts table sugar just like heating with acid. Once inverted the sugars can now pass into the blood stream. Table sugar cannot pass directly into the blood stream, in neither bees or mammals, the sugar must be inverted as called with bees or digested as it is called with mammals.
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