Well, Mars will be in opposition to the sun with best viewing on Dec. 23 at about dusk. If you look up at the moon, you should be able to see the red planet at about the 7:00 o’clock position. If you have a telescope, you will be able to see the terrain as Mars is just that close!
I am planning on making “Marsmallows” to celebrate and want to invite my nephews over to help make them. But, most recipes call for an electric mixer and the use of a whisk attachment. I only have a little hand mixer that has the standard two beaters. Will this work?
I just want to avoid a kitchen disaster. However, disaster is Mars’ forte!
Thanks for any help you marshmallow makers can give. Also, it you have a favourite recipe, I am always on the look out for one to adopt as my “own’”!
I am so desperate I have even posted on another board to try and get some insight. I really cannot afford an electric mixer (but I have been coveting one for a long time now!).
Please help if you can!
Thanks very much! (Sorry about all of the exclamation points- I will try to restrain myself).
Alton Brown just did (or Food Network just aired a repeat) a show on making marshmallows. I was so excited, because his look like the real thing, not the silly merengue cookie recipe that everyone tries to pan off as marshmallow recipes. And here’s the recipe.
But it takes nearly 20 minutes of stand-mixer whipping, which even with a hand mixer is going to be tough. Are you doing this with other people? Can you trade off whipping duty? Maybe have someone else bring another mixer, so you’re not burning the motor of one by running it that long?
Really, if they don’t turn out entirely fluffy, they’d be more Mars like anyway, right? Mars in the mythic sense - strong manly man god o’ war wouldn’t be nibblin’ on no mamby-pampby fluffy marshmallers. He’d gnaw on chewy flat marsmallows!
(You are going to add red food color, right? The paste kind might give you real red, the liquid stuff will only get you to pink.)
I use my little handmixer with the normal beaters to make the peppermint marshmallows I have been making for Christmas gifts this year. It works just fine. The thing to keep in mind if you’re doing this with small kids is that part of the recipe will call for very hot sugar – like 265 F – be very very careful, as sugar sticks to the skin and that’s a third degree burn. Otherwise, you will be just fine with what you have.
Silly foodies. You don’t make marshmallows. You buy them in plastic bags, where they grew naturally on strawberry-like plants beneath the pineapple trees and near the waving fields of spaghetti. The runners of the marshmallow plant become twist-ties and the leaves are melted to make cellophane.
Doing anything else is like claiming people actually drink Angostura bitters.
This is all true. I’ve seen the film about the fields of spaghetti. And I’ve also heard that chocolate chips grow like berries on bushes. Those little non-pareil things grow inside pods. The pods can be used to make birthday candles.
And what is the h for? You have Mars. And Mallows (I supposed that’s the candy’s name) but that’s Marsmallows, not marshmallows. Just curious.
