Rock Candy
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pour sugar into water until fully absorbed.
Place strings across the surface of the mixture.
Add flavoring if desired.
Grow the crystals
Let it sit in a warm place.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Sugar
- Dissolves into the water and later forms the crystals that make up the candy.
- Water
- Dissolves the sugar so it can recrystallise onto the strings as the liquid slowly evaporates.
The step that matters
Dissolving the sugar fully. Sugar must be completely dissolved in the water before the strings go in. Undissolved sugar can seed crystals in the wrong places and give a grainy, uneven result.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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