Recipe For Old Fashioned Rock Candy

Any spices or extracts will work as flavorings.

Recipe for old fashioned rock candy. Share this with your children it is great for boring christmas vacation. Bring sugar syrup and water to 300 degrees f on a candy thermometer. Pour into prepared dish let cool then break into pieces.

How to make old fashioned rock candy. Turn out of pan and crack into desired pieces. At this point you can toss them in confectioner s sugar if desired.

Pour quickly into a grease square pan. Add flavoring and desired food color. Makes 3 rock candies.

In a large saucepan combine ingredients over medium high heat. Immediately pour into the prepared pan. 5 cups unbleached pure cane sugar plus more for rolling.

Cover and cook for three minutes so all the sugar crystals will dissolve. Uncover and cook on medium high heat without stirring until a candy thermometer reaches 300 hard crack stage about 25 minutes. By pulling loaf sugar after it is boiled you can make it as white as snow.

In a large saucepan cook all above ingredients quickly without stirring to 290f. Loaf sugar or granulated sugar when boiled by pulling and making into small rolls and twisting a little will make what is called little rock or snow. Old fashioned rock candy.