The Laws of Hard Marshmallows

1. There is no candy like a really hard marshmallow. To bite and hear the crack is near unto heaven.
2. Marshmallows do not get hard in a swamp cooler environment.
3. They do get hard when placed in a collander and left on the kitchen cabinet and left to very dry air in a desert environment, but they vary in hardness and do not harden at the same time or the same hardness. Hardness even varies within a single miniture marshmallow, with one side being crunchie and the other side somewhat soft.
4. Even stone hard marshmallows will soften if held in a regular closed hand.
5. It is wise unless you are in a humid area, like Seattle or South Carolina, to find a box, buy several bags of miniture marshmallows, dump the marshmallows out of the bags into the box and close the box. Since the cardboard in porous, the marshmallows will harden at a fairly adequate rate and be available for consumption when you most desire them. However, it is prudent to remember what you have done or you may find you have several boxes hardening marshmallows and forget where you put them.