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CANDYING, tyc

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a pound of sugar
  2. a quart of water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. ready a thin syrup made of a quart of water, and a pound of sugar.
  2. Boil them a few at a time, to keep them from breaking till they look clear.
  3. Then put them into a syrup made of fine loaf sugar, with as much water as will dissolve it, and boil them to a candy height.
  4. When you take them up, lay them on a sieve, and grate double-refined sugar over them.
  5. Then put them in a stove, or before the fire to dry.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Grater
  • Sieve