Hoarhound Candy
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the hoarhound in water for about 30 minutes.
Strain the mixture and add the brown sugar.
Boil over high heat until the mixture is hard enough.
Pour into flat, greased tins and mark into sticks or squares while still warm.
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.
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What each ingredient does
- Hoarhound
- Provides the characteristic bitter, herbal flavour that defines the candy.
- Brown sugar
- Supplies sweetness and, once boiled down, the mass that sets into firm candy.
The step that matters
Boil until hard enough. Sugar candy sets according to how much water has boiled off. Stopping too early leaves it soft and sticky, while boiling too long makes it brittle or scorched.
“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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