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Candy making is the preparation and cookery of candies and sugar confections. Candy making includes the preparation of many various candies, such as hard candies , jelly beans , gumdrops , taffy , liquorice , cotton candy , chocolates and chocolate truffles , dragées , fudge , caramel candy , and toffee .
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White granulated sugar is most commonly used to create liquid sugar, and the process of making it is, indeed, simple—just dissolve the sugar in an equal amount of boiling water and, ta-da ...
(See candy making for a description of sugar stages.) A candy thermometer is similar to a meat thermometer but can read higher temperatures, usually 400 °F/200 °C or more. Candy thermometers can also be used to measure hot oil for deep frying since it can reach higher temperatures than a normal thermometer.
Degrees Brix (symbol °Bx) is a measure of the dissolved solids in a liquid, based on its specific gravity, and is commonly used to measure dissolved sugar content of a solution. [1] One degree Brix is 1 gram of sucrose in 100 grams of solution and represents the strength of the solution as percentage by mass. If the solution contains dissolved ...
Others swear by placing apple slices in brown sugar to keep it soft, but you can’t leave those in the container for very long (they’ll decompose), and it's much messier, in our experience.
Drops are a traditional small, round confectionery made from a mixture of boiled sugar and flavourings. They are "dropped" onto a pan or baking sheet to set. [1] In the 1840s, drop roller machines came on the market. [2] [3] These machines took the hot, 120 °C, cooked sugar, and molded it into shapes between two hand cranked brass rollers. [4]
Simple syrup (also known as sugar syrup, or bar syrup) is a basic sugar-and-water syrup. It is used by bartenders as a sweetener to make cocktails, and as a yeast feeding agent in ethanol fermentation. The ratio of sugar to water is 1:1 by volume for normal simple syrup, but can get up to 2:1 for rich simple syrup. [6]