I’m being a bad bad dieter - I am in the process of brewing up a batch of rock sugar candy in the kitchen. It was something I dearly loved as a kid, my mom would get it on occasion from a little store somewhere. I hadn’t had it in years, then found it when I was in Washington and, well… I decided to try my hand at making up a batch of it here at home.

I just made a sugar concentration of 1 part boiling water to two parts sugar. Using string for cooking I dipped the string into the mixture and it is now drying to provide a base for the crystals to grow on. When the string is dry I will dip it into the solution and let the crystals grow on the string. I’ll report the results in about a week, which is how long it takes for the crystals to mature.

Recipe -

1/2 cup boiling water
1 cup sugar

Mix water and sugar then heat on medium, stirring constantly, until mixture is clear. Pour into coffee mug and dip clean food usable string into the solution. Let string dry, then suspend into the solution from an overhead support of some kind for a week to let crystals grow.

I’ll report back the results in a week.