Candy & sugar quandry
So I decided to make a batch of candy and granulated sugar lastnight. I figured I would just pour off a small quantity of syrup to make about 20-30 maple leafs 1/3 oz when It hit temp. then let the rest of the syrup run up to temp for sugar while I did the candy.
So the candy came out great. supper smoth on the toung.
The sugar crystalized great. Took the rest to 168°-170° and it just didn't want to go off in the mixer it started to crystallize but stayed wet so after a good 7 minutes in the mixer I added some water back to it and took it to candy temp and made more awesom candy. It actually set faster in the second batch than the first.
I made a quart into sugar earlier in the week out of the same batch and it was poof steam cloud and then a mixing bowl of beautiful sugar. Pardon my French but WTF did I do .
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