@hayles That would certainly explain the taste. And yes, I made it up from dry, and it did look like it would go well in tea.
Decorating fact of the day: sugar soap tastes more like soap than sugar.
Streaming my decorating entertainment via AirTunes. This morning, I’ve been sugar-soaping to stories from the Escape Pod podcast.
Currently unfolding large polythene dust sheets by draping myself with them and flapping. Feel like a new ghost, practising.