[Sca-cooks] Out of Period: Cotton Candy?
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Mon Nov 21 03:42:01 PST 2011
The flavored sugar can be purchased through places that rent the
machines for school carnivals and parties. Look in the yellow pages.
I think we used pink bubblegum and blue raspberry the last time I
operated one of the large commercial machines. That was when Patrick
was in junior high and it was one of those end of year parties.
I tend to use just plain granulated sugar when we make it here at
home. I have one of the small machines.
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Information on the history etc from my notes
Bruce Feiler article from Gourmet titled "Spun Heaven."
http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2000/02/spunheaven
Prior to the inventions of the machines we have various pulled sugars
that can be pulled into threads.
Pashmak which is a type of Persian candy floss/cotton candy made
> > from sesame oil and sugar which is eaten with the fingers. (Gotta
love
> > Wikipedia's definitions) Synonyms Persian Fairy Floss
> > There was a picture of Persian Floss in the November 2005 issue
> > of Food and Wine. Page 113.
> > Hand-spun and pink. http://www.pariya.com/
The Ottomans made something called Keten Halwassi which was a type of
> "fairy floss" > as early as the 17th century. Today it's known as
pismaniye (if coarse),
> and saray helvasi (if more fine).
> Pismaniye packages say that "Cotton Delight Koska (Pismaniye)
contain--
> Ing: Sugar, wheat meal, vagetable butter, citric acid, aroma
identical
> to naturel (vanilia), pistachio nuts."
There's also Dragon Beard Candy which came up on Sca Cooks several
years ago.
It's a form of pulled sugar strand candy that's very old too.
http://www.yuzumura.com/pc-12-9-bamboo-garden-icy-crispy-dragon-beard-candy.aspx
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If you go to YouTube and search under Dragon Beard you can find a
number of
these videos now. The Persian can also be seen.
Johnnae
On Nov 20, 2011, at 10:28 PM, JAMES REVELLS wrote:
> Hej!
>
> Out of Period, but slightly on topic, does anyone know anything
> about flavoring sugar for use in cotton candy? Preping granulated
> sugar to use in making cotton candy. Generally anything about
> making cotton candy?
>
> Thanks,
> Olaf of Trollhiemsfjord
>
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