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To Caramelize Sugar

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. 3 tablespoons water
  2. Sugar

Cook safely

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

  • Hot sugar. Hot sugar sticks to skin and burns far hotter than boiling water: don't touch or taste it. Keep a bowl of cold water close, and keep children away while it cooks.

Method

  1. STIR in iron skillet over fire until sugar dissolves and becomes a syrup of rich caramel color, add 3 tablespoons water and cook to a thick syrup.
  2. This has a fine flavor all its own.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The fifty two Sunday dinners (1924), printed page 6, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/fiftytwosundaydi00unse

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.