[Sca-cooks] Sugar awww Honey Honey

[Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur]

> What is "spun sugar"? Is that the same stuff as "cotton candy"? I happened
to
> notice that my local grocery now sells this stuff in plastic bags hanging
on a
> display rack.

Cotton candy is a variety of spun sugar, very very fine, and requires
machinery to produce. Fancy French patisserie sometimes uses spun sugar as
decoration; for instance, I recall seeing Julia Child once make a dome of
spun sugar to top her Gateau St. Honore. It's made by making a fairly light
blond caramel, dipping a fork in it, then waving the fork about. You can
wave the fork over an oiled dowel if you want strings, or in the case of
Julia's dome, she waved it over the oiled outside of a metal bowl.

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