Not a good precedent.
In my mind, candymaking is only directions like these, with some "a dark caramel color" qualifications thrown in for "clarity." Hope you have good lighting in your kitchen to discern between dark caramel and golden.
So when the parental units suggested candymaking as a New Year's activity, I thought, "Well, I won't be the only one there to screw it up. Or clean it up either. We can have a hammer party and take pictures and remember it forevermore as the most hilarious and doomed recipe endeavor we ever undertook."
Instead, we ended up with a new New Year's Day tradition. Thank heavens for recipes that involve candy thermometers. Science to the rescue! And furthermore, scrumptious success!!
