{"id":16175,"date":"2018-11-16T08:24:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=16175"},"modified":"2020-04-16T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T18:14:57","slug":"grandpas-notes-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/grandpas-notes-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa&#8217;s Notes # 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Treats and Just for Fun<\/h1>\n<p>[tv-note]<\/p>\n<h2>Black Muffins<\/h2>\n<p>A great idea for a Halloween party. &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Just add 1 TBL activated charcoal for Black Muffins, or 1 TBL fine wood ash (untreated wood) for Gray Muffins<\/p>\n<h2>Candied Apples<\/h2>\n<p>Put 2\u00a0 sugar into a heavy pot and add 1\/4 C corn syrup.\u00a0 The Chef on TV added 3\/4 C water, but this is really unnecessary.\u00a0 As long as a single teaspoon of water remains, the syrup will never get above 212\u00ba.\u00a0 You need to bring it up to 300\u00ba for caramelization to happen.\u00a0 The water is a shortcut to make the sugar melt, that actually makes the entire process take longer.\u00a0 Skip the water.<\/p>\n<p>Option:\u00a0 For Black Apples, add 1 T activated charcoal when the temperature hits about 285\u00ba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treats and Just for Fun [tv-note] Black Muffins A great idea for a Halloween party. &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Just add 1 TBL activated charcoal for Black Muffins, or 1 TBL fine wood ash (untreated wood) for Gray Muffins Candied Apples Put 2\u00a0 sugar into a heavy pot and add 1\/4 C corn syrup.\u00a0 The Chef &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/grandpas-notes-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grandpa&#8217;s Notes # 19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection","category-working"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16184,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16175\/revisions\/16184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}