8/4/2023 0 Comments Alton brown vanilla sugar![]() Put some powdered sugar in it, enough to make indentations in, about a half inch to an inch oughta do it. Get out a pie pan, or a cake pan, or a casserole pan…any shallow-ish pan with sides. Here’s the handy trick I was talking about. Before the mixture reaches 310, prepare your candy mold! Oh my, you don’t have one? Me neither.Grab a book, this is going to take forever, but keep a watchful eye on your stove. The mixture needs to read the hard crack stage without the sugar burning, which is between 300 & 310 degrees.Process shot! see I told you I was working on it Clip a candy thermometer to the side of the pan and bring the mixture to a boil, occasionally washing the insides of the pan with a pastry brush dipped in cold water. Add sugar and turn the stove back on medium low heat.Bring 2 cups of water to a boil in a high sided sauce pan and steep the tea bags for about 15-20 minutes.I love simple solutions, but this one has made me call my favorite TV chef into question.Ĥ tea bags (doesn’t have to be Lemon Ginger, just pick a good flavor of good tea)Ģ c. Needless to say, this new method not only is much easier in terms of portioning out the candy, but also in storing it. And on top of that it was counter to EVERYTHING I had ever learned from him – there might be a process, but if there’s an easy way with the same resulting taste go that route. They looked fine in his pictures in my kitchen, not so much. You see, his instructions at the end said to spoon teaspoons of the liquid candy onto parchment paper. Then, shortly after my mom requested the recipe, I came across this Instructable…And I was so angry with Mr. Because the majority of sugar in AB’s recipe was honey, it still didn’t quite set at hard crack stage, and actually ended up chipping the tooth of a friend who tried to chew on it (whoops! Her dad’s a dentist though, so it turned out to be OK). The first time I made this recipe, I gave it as a gift, which was brave considering I had no idea what they would taste like, if they would ship well, or hell, even if they would pack and store well. With no flavoring though, you might as well suck on a sugar cube. Sugar + Equal Amount of Water + Heat = Candy ![]()
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