How to make rock candy?
Simple! First, you will find a good rock ... then you can get your candy-making wand, wave it over the cliff a few times ... and then ... WALLA! Rock Candy!
It is well not quite magic, but the results of homemade rock candy is about magic as it may, in candy making. It is not only fascinating, but it is also very, very simple ... and beyond that, it tastes good and is unique as a snowflake.
After all, one of the easiest and most exciting goodies for you can do with your children is rock candy ... and other hard candies come in second. Rock candy is a good way to use the kitchen to introduce many things outside the kitchen arts.
Among the "other" is the fact that cooking is chemistry in action ... actions that you can monitor and control to some extent. Some of the best learning is completed, when the atmosphere does not suggest "school" or "study." In the making of candy is such insights and enlightenments part of experience learning. In addition, many, many, aspects of the physical world, observed in making sweets in General and rock candy in particular.
Rock candy is really very easy to do. It takes about an hour to do ... at least to prepare it to the point where it is doing its own thing. The very creation of candy can take anywhere from one hour to several days ... depending on the concentration of the recipe. In fact, there are several ways to make rock candy ... everything quite simply.
The only ingredients needed to make rock candy sugar and water. Basic recipe may be changed by adjusting the proportions of the ingredients. All you really do is prepare a syrup manufacturer, specify a criteria to sugar in solution form crystals which it has cooled ... or the water evaporates. And that's it!
This is how it is done!
Collect and prepare your material: material: clean the jar or jars, cotton string lengths with height of jars plus one inch, tape, pens and ingredients for candy, sugar and water. Prep: bind a thick cotton thread to a pen and place it at the top of a jar, make sure the string is about one inch from the bottom of the jar. Wet the thread and roll in granulated sugar let sugar coated wire dry. This will make the thread a "seed" or "magnet" stones of candy to be attracted to and grow on.
Prepare syrup. In a medium sized pan taking about two cups of water to a boil. Start adding the sugar in boiling water, a Cup at a time ... a total of four cups. Stirring after each addition. Task is to completely Dissolve all the sugar in the water. When you add the sugar, the longer it takes for the sugar to dissolve. Please be patient ... Continue to stir and boil syrup until all the sugar has been added and is completely dissolved. Delete the shape from the heat.
Allow sugar syrup to cool in about 10 minutes, then pour it in the prepared jar. Lower watered-down string or skewer until it hangs about one inch from the bottom. Carefully place your jar in a cool place where you can sit undisturbed, away from the harsh light. Cover loosely with plastic foil or paper towel.
in two or three hours, you should start to see sugar crystals which form of the string. After 24 hours no crystals, try boiling sugar syrup again and dissolve another Cup of sugar to it, pour it back in the jar, and insert the string again.
Allow rock candy to grow until it is the size you want. Be careful, however, should not allow it to grow into the sides of the jar. When it has reached the desired size, remove it and let it dry for a few minutes.
What you get with is rock candy on a string. The technology used to make different types of rock candy is to increase or decrease the amount of sugar dissolved in syrup solution even more sugar for the same amount of water will result in larger crystals. A variety of tastes and colours can be achieved by adding a little food coloring or flavoring choice.
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