What is a Cotton Candy?!
Answers: American for Candyfloss.
candy floss
In the UK its called Candy Floss in Cyprus its called old ladies hair (no, i'm not joking!)
sugar and food dye
candy floss
spun suger
sugar with food die, then heated in a spinning thing so it forms long strings then a stick twisted through it as it strings out... you can get little machines to make them in most eletrical appliance stores that sell electrical kitchen bits and peices :)
candy floss
(fluffy pink stuff on a stick)
yummy stuff x]
Pure sugar heaven!
spun sugar - we call it candyfloss in england
it is also called candy floss..in india it is called budhi ke baal..which means old lady's hair...
its a sticky fluffy pink mass on a stick called candy floss.
Candy floss or in Greece it's called old ladies hair. It's mainly sugar.
In its most basic state, cotton candy is deceptively simple. It has only one essential ingredient—sugar—although coloring and flavoring are usually added. Traditionally, cotton candy was pink and tasted like sugar. Modern tastes have brought about such flavor innovations as sour apple, lime, blue raspberry, banana, bubblegum, and even “cake batter.” With variations in flavor come the expected variations in color, and it is not uncommon to see vendors with bags and cones of cotton candy in blue, purple, yellow, and green.
A predecessor of cotton candy existed as early as the fourteenth century. Skilled cooks would bring sugar to its melting point, then drizzle fine threads of it over greased forms. When it hardened, this spun sugar would form a delicate web, which would be served as an elegant sweet or used as part of a more elaborate dessert. Spun-sugar Easter eggs made using this technique were particularly prized in Europe.
The origins of cotton candy as we know it today are somewhat ambiguous, with four individuals being credited with its development. In 1897, William Morrison and John C. Wharton, candy makers from Tennessee, invented a machine that spun molten sugar into fine filaments. Their machine used centrifugal force to throw the melted sugar through a screen. The spun sugar was then lightly twisted around a paper cone. Morrison and Wharton introduced their confection on a grand scale at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. They called their creation "Fairy Floss" and sold it for twenty-five cents a box. Although this was no small sum at the time, people were apparently willing to pay for the sugary novelty. Morrison and Wharton sold over 68,000 boxes at the fair.
In 1900, Thomas Patton received a separate patent for his way of producing cotton candy, which used a gas-fired rotating disk to stream the molten sugar through a fork. A fourth man, a dentist named Lascaux from Louisiana, also receives some credit for coming up with and distributing the sugary snack from his practice, though he never held a patent or a trademark. Presumably, the benefits he enjoyed were largely related to an increase in business of a dental nature.
Candy floss.
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