[Sca-cooks] rock candy

[Stefan li Rous]

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa answered my question with:
> >> 2. Anyone have a good recipe for "Rock Candy"?
> > Hmmm. Anyone know if this is period? Or if not, when it was first 
> made?
>
> It's period. Recrystalizing sugar is part of the refining process, so
> when you whiten sugar you're recrystalizing it.
Hmmm. Okay, but when I think of "rock candy", I think of large crystals 
of sugar and in sugar refining I'm not sure large crystals gain you 
anything and they are more expensive since they take more time to 
create. When I think of rock candy I think of strings left in saturated 
sugar solutions and slowly cooled or left in the solution for multiple 
days. since that is the way I remember making it as a child. But I 
guess it could come down to what you consider "rock candy" to be.

> The mention of Sugar Candy I recall is in C. Anne Wilson, and it's one
> of the sickly young kings being fed rose sugar and violet sugar 
> candies.

But were these large crystals of sugar or just a syrup of sugar formed 
into shapes?

Stefan
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