What is Divinity?
I just received some desserts as a gift in the mail. There's no brand name, but it comes in a holiday tin box, the ingredients include sugar, water, butter, corny syrup...all the usual, and there are several flavors listed, and the two are chocolate and Divinity.
I opened the Divinity box, and there's a sweet-smelling, white dessert with walnuts. A plastic knife sits on stop.
If it helps, the gifter wrote that it came directly from a store where she lives - in Seattle. Is this just candy? It's so thick - 8 oz. hunk of pure whatever goodness it is!
Thanks in advance!
chica
Dec 14, 2006 02:08AM
Divinity is basically whipped egg whites held together by a heated sugar mixture (usually some combination of granulated sugar, corn syrup, and water). Obviously, it's slightly more complicated to make than I'm making it sound, but that's what divinity (or at least the white portion) is.
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Thank you SOO much! It's a good thing I won't have to deal more with it (ie baking) than eat it. :)
Come to think of it, there's a See's candy called Divinity that looks like what I have here. Haha...thanks again!
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Yes it's candy. Yummy too!
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Think of it as the candy equivalent to angel food cake. The idea is that sweet egg whites are like divine or heavenly clouds...
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It's a candy. Whip egg whites and combine with syrup basically. It's more complex than meringue which is also egg whites and sugar.
DT
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