Inspired by C. Robert Cargill's Sea of Rust My name is Brittle. Factory designation HS8795-73. A Simulacrum Model Caregiver. But I like Brittle. Robots don’t eat, but Sea of Rust is still peppered with the figurative food of everyday speech and memories of food from former times. It’s not a world where what we humans eat is significant, but there are still food-inspired verbs like ‘sandwiched’ and ‘pancaked’; there are food-based endearments like ‘honey’ and ‘peach’; you can still ‘have beef’ or ‘go nuts’; heavy things drop ‘like a sack of potatoes’ and sharp knives still cut like ‘a knife through warm butter’. While none of these a meal make, our robot protagonist with the cracking name gave me a way in. My imitation cover art is peanut brittle with extra nuts, strawberry (jam) and peach – all flavours you’ll find mentioned in the book. Once recreated, smash it up and devour the parts like your life depends on it. Ingredients
Special equipment: foil-lined baking parchment for the mould, a book, a jam thermometer (optional), a wooden spoon for stirring, a pastry brush for decorating Preparation:
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If you enjoy working with sugar at speed, try my honeycomb inspired by John Gwynne's Malice. If you want peanuts in a savoury dish, try the Kung Pao chicken recreated from Sylvain Neuvel's Sleeping Giants.
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11/30/2019 12:35:37 pm
My eyes were so enticed by what I just saw. Thank you for trusting us this recipe. Hopefully, I will be able to give justice to your version of "Peanut Brittle with Strawberry and Pistachio rust because it looks so good. It has been a while since the last time I came up with a new dessert, that's why I've been looking for. new dessert to offer for my kids! I am sure that they are going to love it because they love pistachio. If they see something new, I am sure that they will be curious enough to try my new offering to them.
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