[Sca-cooks] Sugar Plate/Paste; Stained Glass Sugar

[Olwen the Odd]

I have had some success with larger windows with the first method by putting
a wrinkle in the parchment under the area of cookie between colours.  The
candies work because the crushed bits just revert to the syrup stage.  That
is why sugar doesn't work.  I have also done larger pieces by spooning syrup
into the holes.  I place the baked frame on a parchement with the wrinkles
on a cold cookie tray sitting on ice so the syrup hardens almost
immediately.

When I have poured syrup or melted mashed candy and threw it out on a cold
marble slab to harden I have done stained glass (actually I used to make a
living doing stained glass with glass) I have broken up the big piece and
done a melt down (with a hot spoon or knife, etc) to get exact shapes.  I
actually first begin with a picture or drawing (duh) then lay the pieces out
on the drawing then have gone back after all the pieces are "cut" out and
fastened them all together using a couple of different methods.  One is to
melt the pieces together with a tiny cooks torch, two is to make connectors
using either sugar plate or marzipan.
Olwen
>I've done the former method for small 'windows', but as you say the colors
>blend if you try to do a large stained glass 'window this way.
>
>Please explain to everyone why crushed clear candies work well, but
>granulated colored sugar does not melt. Also, what have you found to be the
>best way of baking these? If baked directly on the pan these will stick &
>break. Do you use  parchment paper? Greased or ungreased aluminum foil?
>
>Cindy
>
>
> >The first method makes it tricky to do large areas of "glass".  The
> >second method Is used to make windows in gingerbread houses that you glue
> >in place with royal icing.  In my experience, it's quite a pain to mix
> >different colours together in a pattern, the edges blurr any way.  If
> >your design is made of easy enough components, you can cut them to shape
> >and attatch with icing.  You could even backlight it with a candle to get
> >a real stained glass window effect!
> >
>
>
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