>On 27/1/11 Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>
>>And we wonder what Nisus is up to!
>
>I don't doubt they're doing fabulous things even as we speak....    I'm
>told that the next version will have voice input and will even make the
>coffee if you ask it nicely :-)

Coffee poffee. If it can't make caramel sauce to have hot on ice 
cream, well -- it just won't be up to snuff.

Here's the standard (from a recipe given on Australian Master Chef 
which has displaced all others in our household): 250 ml pure cream 
(1 cup), 50 gms butter, 1 cup of brown sugar, teaspoon of vanilla 
extract. Dump in saucepan, stir while bringing j-u-u-u-s-t- to the 
boil, then simmer for 7-10 minutes, stirring the while. The simmering 
time is pretty optional; the longer the simmer, the thicker it tends 
to get. You hope! it shouldn't boil hard at all. We're tending to do 
best with this in a thin bottomed saucepan -- in a thick bottomed 
one, it is a bit hard to control the boil point. (Or perhaps we're 
just hamfisted. Okay, not "we", more "me". If it comes up too thin 
for your liking, it still tastes delicious. But thicker, so that it 
turns into soft toffee on the ice cream, is how I prefer it. 
Mmmmmmmmm!)

Okay -- NWP v.2 has to at least match that. It *should* exceed it, 
it's been simmering long enough!  :D

Best regards

Geoffrey Heard
The Ad-Doctor-Online
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