Making Rock Candy
Posted by Molly | Under Just For Fun | Wednesday May 7, 2008If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Rock Candy was one of the fun parts of summer. Rock candy is sold all year long, but for some reason it seems like we only ever really see it during the summer. I found a recipe that you can use to make Rock Candy with your own children.
Rock Candy
2 c granulated sugar
Heavy cord
1 c water
Put one cup of water into a small saucepan, pour 2 cups of granulated
sugar into the water, heat the water and sugar on the stove over a
medium heat, continue stirring until the sugar melts, keep adding
sugar and stirring until it melts, stop adding sugar when you see that it
will no longer dissolve in the water (that is until you see sugar lying on
the bottom of the saucepan). Remove the pot from the stove, let the
liquid cool until it is just warm. Pour the liquid into a clean glass jar.
Tie one end of a piece of heavy cord around the middle of a pencil.
Place the pencil over the top of the glass jar letting the cord fall into
the liquid. Crystals will begin to form in a few hours. The next day,
remove the cord from the jar, pour the sugar liquid back into the
saucepan, reheat and cool it just as you did before. Pour the liquid
back into the jar and reinsert the cord with the crystals into it. More
crystals will form. If you repeat this procedure every day the crystal
candy will grow bigger and bigger. When it has reached a size that
pleases you, snip off any excess string and enjoy.