Quote Originally Posted by spyder View Post
Some questions:
1. Why boil the mixture? Was the resulting reduction still easy to spray?
2. Why bake in oven vs drying naturally?
1. I was trying to get the excess water out of it...I wanted the topping to be very concentrated when sprayed on.
2. The topping was very sticky (due to the simple syrup and liquor), by baking it I was able to negate that. It came out the oven, was spritzed with a little DW to make it less brittle, and then was able to be tossed and bagged. Had I let it sit and dry naturally I would have ended up with a single gummy sheet of tobacco the size of my pan.