Rock candy?!
Rock candy?
I need a good website or recipe on how to make it thanks.
Answers:
Here are a few:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/can...
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160...
http://www.ehow.com/how_3893_make-rock-c...
Try adding food color as well!
:)
http://www.anniesrecipes.com/kitchen/can...
hope this will help.
foodnetwork.com
it should have recipes for it.
We'll i hope this helps uh, i think you are supposed to cook sugar and then put food coloring in the pot while cooking it and then cut up little pieces and then get an ice tray and then put some pieces in one part of the ice tray and then freeze it and in the next morning you should have rock candy and if ou don't please forgive me for wasting your time. hope it works out! and you can also go to this web site www.cookingwithdummies/rockcan... i hope this works! i went to this web site before to learn how to make rice crispy treats so this will help you out.
How to Make Rock Candy
Rock Candy
This is a fun and easy project, perfect for children (with adult supervision). These are the steps to make 1 "growth" of rock candy, however you can make more than one at a time.
Steps
1.Start a pot of water boiling on the stove.
2.Tie a piece of string around the middle of the pencil/stick/butter knife. The string should be long enough so that when the pencil is placed over the top of the glass, the string will come up just short of the bottom.
3.Wet the string with a little water and roll it in the sugar. Put the paper clip on the end of the string to act as a weight and help the string stay straight. Lay the stick over the top of the glass jar so that the string hangs down inside the jar, but not touching the bottom of the jar.
4. When the water has started boiling, remove it from the heat and let the water settle.
5. Stir in the sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time. Continue adding sugar until it starts collecting at the bottom of the pot and won't dissolve even when you stir. If you want to add flavoring or color, stir it in now. Now pour the hot mixture into the jar.
6. Pour the sugar solution into the glass until it is about 1" from the top.
7. Place the pencil over the jar and allow the string to dangle into the solution. Don't let the string settle on the bottom or sides of the glass.
8. Place the glass somewhere that it can sit for a while undisturbed (but do not refrigerate it). After a day or so, you should be seeing crystal growth on the string.
9. Leave the string in the solution until the crystals are big enough for you or have completely stopped growing.
10.Remove the string from the glass and let dry.
11. Eat and enjoy!
Tips
To make colored crystals, you can add food dye when you add the sugar.
To add some flavor, you can add a few drops of lemon or lime juice (or other flavors) or tie a small piece of hard candy at the bottom of the string, like a piece of a peppermint or cinnamon candy.
Natural fiber string like cotton or twine will work best. Nylon fiber and other polymer string won't stimulate crystal growth very well.
Glass jars with a hole cut in the lid work great and keep dust from settling into the solution. If you are using a normal glass, you can cover the top with tin foil.
If the string keeps floating, you can weigh the end down with something. Small pieces of store bought rock candy work best and will make your own crystals start to grow faster.
How does this work? The water-sugar mixture is saturated at boiling temperature (this means that it cannot dissolve any more sugar) When the mixture lowers in temperature it becomes supersaturated- meaning that it contains more sugar than it should at that temperature. When more sugar is added at room temperature the mixture "realizes" that it has more sugar than it should and the excess sugar crystallizes on the string.
Warnings
Make sure an adult is supervising since you will be boiling water.
Do not mess with the jar or put your fingers in it. This disrupts the forming process of the crystalline structure. It may not prevent it from working, but it will hinder the progress of the crystal growth.
Too much sugar is bad for your teeth, and other parts of your body. Only have one piece of rock candy a day, and drink some water after you finish yours.
Things You'll Need
Water
Sugar
Clean glass or jar
Pencil or skewer stick
Cotton string or twine
Pot to boil water
Spoon (for stirring)
http://www.wikihow.com/make-rock-candy...
1. Boil, say, two cups of water
2. Add lots of sugar. Stir till it dissolves. Make it almost like syrup.
3. Tie a washer to the end of a string so it has an 'anchor'. Tie the other end to a stick.
4. Set the stick across the mouth of a jar. dangle the string inside, pour in the hot water, let it cool, let it sit overnight, watch the sugar crystals clump around the string.
5. You'll have to experiment with how much sugar to add to the boiling water to get the best mix.
Heat a pan of water to near boiling.
Add sugar and stir to dissolve it. Keep adding sugar as long as it continues to dissolve. As it gets more concentrated, it will take longer to dissolve, so don't get too impatient.
Tie strings to the handle of a wooden spoon. The bottom end of the strings need to be weighted with something. (A fishing sinker is NOT a good idea, because it's made of lead, which is poisonous. If you can't figure out anything else, you can get stainless steel washers or nuts at the hardware store.
Put the wooden spoon across the pan, so that the strings run straight down, weighted by the other end.
Allow the pan to cool. The longer it takes to cool, the bigger your "rocks" will get.
When your water has reached room temperature, withdraw the rock candy. Heat the water to near-boiling again, and it will take much less sugar to saturate the water this time (because you started out with sweet water in the first place). When you reach saturation again, you can make a new batch of rock candy - or you can deposit the rock candy you already have. It won't melt much because the water is already saturated with sugar, and as the water cools, it will make the rock candy a little larger.
(If you haven't seen Bridget Jones' Diary, please be warned that you want to be careful what string you use....)