Name: Spinning Sugar
Ingredients: sugar; water; oil (for greasing)

Spinning Sugar

Ingredients

sugar
water
oil (for greasing)

Directions

Boil sugar and water until it reaches the crack stage.
Grease a knife with oil.
Pour a small amount of syrup from a spoon, moving it back and forth over the oiled knife.
Quickly and steadily spin the sugar into long or short sections, or directly over the piece to be decorated.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.