Recent content by lavenderblonde

Thanks everyone :)

I can't wait for it to be completely cool, the mix hardens as it cools. But I can wait until it's a bit cooler.

Yeah, I want the alcohol to not evaporate :) We're having a go at adapting a lollipop recipe to make it alcoholic, but I've never cooked with alcohol before so I wasn't sure if it would work .. I think it will be okay though, if that's the case.

So that's if it is added to hot water and taken off the heat immediately afterwards? Then I'd imagine if you added it after it's been taken off the heat, there'd be a little more than 85% left?

Having a go at adapting a lollipop recipe to make it alcoholic (yeah, it's a long shot!) and we want to add the alcohol at the point when you usually add the flavouring. At that point the mixture is still pretty hot, but it cools rather quickly.

If you heat a mixture to abut 140 degrees, take it off the heat, and then stir vodka into the mix would all the alcohol evaporate? If so, around what temperature would the mixture have to cool to before the vodka could be mixed in?