Spun Sugar Recipe

Ingredients for Spun Sugar

• 2 lbs. sugar
• 2 cups boiling water
• ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar

Instructions

1. Put ingredients in a smooth saucepan.
2. Boil without stirring until syrup begins to discolor, which is 300 degree F.
3. Wash off sugar which adheres to sides of saucepan; this should be washed off with the hand first dipped in cold water.
4. Have a pan of cold water near at hand, dip hand in cold water, then quickly wash off a small part of the sugar with tips of fingers, and repeat until all sugar adhering to side of saucepan is removed.
5. If this is quickly done, there is no danger of burning the fingers.
6. Remove saucepan from fire, and place in a larger pan of cold water to instantly stop boiling.
7. Remove from cold water, and place in saucepan of hot water.
8. Place two broomstick-handles over backs of chairs, and spread paper on the floor under them.
9. When syrup is slightly cooled, put dipper in syrup, remove from syrup, and shake quickly back and forth over broomhandles.
10. Carefully take off spun sugar as soon as formed, and shape in nests, or pile lightly on a cold dish.
11. Syrup may be colored if desired.
12. Spun Sugar is served around bricks or moulds of frozen creams and ices.
13. Dippers for spinning sugar are made of coarse wires; about twenty wires, ten inches long, are put in a bundle, and fastened with wire coiled round and round to form a handle.