[Sca-cooks] Pulled Sugar Penydes was SCA 50th Anniversary Challenge

Susan Fox selene at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 22 12:41:25 PDT 2008


Sandra Kisner wrote:
>
>> I've been going over the YouTube videos of the "dragon hair" candies 
>> lately, and darned if this doesn't look much like it.  The Chinese 
>> seem to roll up chopped peanuts in the candy but surely they have not 
>> been doing that for much more than one century.
>> With gratitude, Selene
>
> Can you give us a link to one of these?  I tried searching on "dragon 
> hair" at YouTube, and nothing they came up with looked edible to me!  :-)
>
> Sandra
> ________
My mistake, it's Dragon BEARD Candy.  The main difference appears to be 
the use of dry-cooked starch to coat the strands to keep them separated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCRthtq49Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbXj4jte7C8

Selene



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