{"id":724,"date":"2015-01-04T22:57:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T06:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=724"},"modified":"2015-01-04T22:57:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T06:57:57","slug":"homemade-marshmallows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Marshmallows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made way too many marshmallows. There is no way we will be able to eat them all. But this was the first time I made marshmallows so that was fun. They are pretty much like&#8230; whipped JELLO. If that makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>I also do not have a candy thermometer, so I decided to eyeball when it got to 240 degrees F, and that actually worked pretty well. When it just barely started boiling at first, I figured it was 212, and about 4 or 5 ish minutes after that it went from a frothy boiling to a more&#8230; clear boiling. And I figured that was 240 degrees. Whether it was or not, the marshmallows are marshmallow-ey and don&#8217;t seem to have suffered for the lack of a thermometer.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/16015552198\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7521\/16015552198_c3f1316a12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marshmallow &#8220;Loaf,&#8221; after being turned out of the pan and before I cut the loaf into little marshmallow cubes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/15583215113\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7507\/15583215113_f6607ff398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The finished marshmallows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I flavored them with vanilla and lavender. They&#8217;re pretty tasty, but we are going to be drinking hot cocoa for a long time to get rid of them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made way too many marshmallows. There is no way we will be able to eat them all. But this was the first time I made marshmallows so that was fun. They are pretty much like&#8230; whipped JELLO. If that makes sense. I also do not have a candy thermometer, so I decided to eyeball &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homemade Marshmallows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[226,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}