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Fondant for Cream Candy

Fondant for cream candy is a sugar syrup thickened with cream of tartar, cooled, beaten, and shaped.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Fondant for Cream Candy

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Combine sugar, hot water, and cream of tartar in a saucepan.

  2. Stir until sugar is completely dissolved.

  3. Bring to a boil without stirring.

  4. Test a teaspoon of syrup in a saucer.

  5. If it forms a creamy ball, remove from heat.

Cool and work the fondant

  1. Pour onto a large flat platter.

  2. Let cool until lukewarm.

  3. Beat until thick and creamy.

  4. Knead until cold.

  5. Flavor as desired.

  6. Shape into forms.

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.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Forms the sweet crystalline structure of the fondant once the syrup is cooled and worked.
Cream of tartar
Acid that helps prevent large sugar crystals from forming, keeping the fondant smooth.

The step that matters

Bring to a boil without stirring. Stirring after the sugar dissolves can trigger premature crystallization, leaving a grainy fondant. Boiling undisturbed keeps the syrup clear and lets the test ball form correctly.

“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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