Re: Candy making
I am bumping this thread in case anyone decided to join me in candy making after all.
I followed the wrong recipe for candied apples, I should have probably boiled to soft crack but I did hard crack as per the dumbass recipe and they were inedible. Which was sad because the apples were perfectly sweet-tart and just the right size, and had the candy coating not been a Kevlar substitute it would have been yummeh.
So I am trying again. I want to make lemon drops. I found a historic recipe that uses straight lemon juice (which is plentiful here this time of year what with it raining citrus) and sugar, and a modern one that uses lemon extract and cream of tartar. I am leaning way over toward the 100 year old one.
What does anyone think? Will anyone even try with me so I have a partner in success or defeat?
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