Cotton candy – one of the most favourite national delicacies. Children love vatu for a sweet taste, lightness and unusual consistence. For adults cotton candy is warm reminiscence of the childhood which isn't forgotten. It is worth biting off once this sweet – and the adult is had to the world where mom buys to it the big white or pink cotton wool similar to a cloud with unusual taste. This taste can't be compared or mixed with something. It isn't obligatory to go to the park, to the city or circus to regale on cotton candy. If there is a wish to revive immediately in memory this fantastic taste or just to please children, then cotton candy can be made also in house conditions. It is enough to know several subtleties of preparation of cotton candy in house conditions.
It is required to you
- sugar, vinegar, water, forks, Japanese sticks, pan or frying pan; in need of production of the device – the sheet of aluminum, plastic, the motor, the enameled ladle
Instruction
1. For a start be defined what you will reel up the cotton candy which turned out as a result on. It is possible to consider the Japanese sticks for sushi, nimbuses, sticks from balloons, thick tubules for cocktails and other moderately thin objects. It is important that thickness of "holder" of cotton candy was sufficient to hold it. Cotton wool shouldn't outweigh "holder". Also chosen subject has to be safe for children. If you have small children, then in this case forget about forks (but they will be necessary for you later for other purposes). The subject holder has to be fixed reliably on a table in vertical position (or you have to be sure that you will be able to prop up "holder" heavier objects, and it won't fall).
2. The following step – preparation of a sugar syrup. Before work lay a land surface and nearby surfaces (floor, chairs, a cloth) paper for pastries, the newspaper or food wrap. Wipe the stiffened sugar drops then it will be difficult. For preparation of a basis for cotton candy (sugar syrup) you need a half-glass of water, 2 drops of a usual diluted acetic acid, one and a half glasses of sugar. For receiving color cotton wool add several drops of food color. Mix all ingredients, then place them in a deep frying pan or a pan with thick walls. Include the "slow fire" mode on a plate and heat the turned-out mix. In order to avoid burning constantly stir slowly future syrup. When mix begins to boil, remove it from fire, cool a little. Further repeat the procedure of 4-5 times. The task is to boil down as much as possible moisture from syrup. Ideally syrup has to become golden-brown. If syrup strongly darkened, then it demonstrates its burning. Constantly you watch its color.
3. After preparation of syrup start the most interesting part of preparation of cotton candy. Remove from the room of children as hot sugar threads it is possible to burn easily. Pick up a nimbus or a fork, dip in the prepared hot syrup. Remember movements of manufacturers of cotton candy from circus, but make on the contrary. You drive a nimbus or a fork around sticks or other objects fixed on a table (don't lower a stick in syrup) before emergence of necessary air volume. At the same time sticks have to be very well fixed on a table in vertical position. All procedure has to look so as if you reel up usual threads on 2 needles located at some distance from each other. For the first time the sugar coating can turn out loose. Trample down sugar threads for receiving more firm texture. Put on the turned-out cotton ball a long stick with which your family and friends will be able to eat a product. You shouldn't be upset if for the first time delicacy didn't turn out beautiful and appetizing. With experience cotton wool will become similar to purchased.
4. If after preparation of cotton candy you have stiffened syrup pieces, then it is possible to make of them lollipops. It is rather simple to split these pieces into smaller parts.
5. If you were lucky, and at your place there is a device for preparation of cotton candy, then it is important to remember some moments. From 1 kg 80 portions of cotton candy will turn out. Postpone amount of sugar necessary for you, dissolve it in water (on 1 kg of sugar it is necessary to take 1 l of water). Within 10 minutes you boil syrup, then add vinegar (3 ml on 1 kg of sugar). Continue to boil syrup of 10 more minutes. Further fire needs to be reduced. You boil mix before obtaining dense weight within 20-25 minutes. Then turn on the device for preparation of cotton candy, slowly pour a hot sugar syrup on edge of a disk. Syrup will stiffen and cotton candy will turn out.
6. Don't forget to switch-off the device before getting from it cotton candy. Separate the turned-out weight from a disk. Cut it on diameter. Further it is necessary to roll 2 sugar semicircles in tubules. It will be most convenient to do it on a board. Cut the rolled tubules on a portion of the necessary thickness. Don't forget to clean a disk. Before preparation of the second portion of cotton candy with use of the device the metal disk should be cleaned too to avoid sticking of a sugar syrup and formation of equal cotton candy.
7. The device for preparation of cotton candy can be made in house conditions too. You need the motor, plastic for a protection and the sheet of aluminum. Pay attention: engine capacity shouldn't be less than 50 W. Frequency of rotation of the rotor can fluctuate from 1250 to 1500 revolutions per minute. The sheet of aluminum will be a basis. Cut out from it a disk 0.2 mm thick. Diameter of a disk has to be 18 cm. Connect a disk to a protection from plastic by means of aluminum rivets. You shouldn't use glue in case of production of the device which will contact to products. Don't forget about the enameled ladle. The plastic or aluminum ladle in this situation won't approach.