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#Lemon drop recipe crack

Come back to SouthernFATTY.The lemon drop cocktail is a great gateway drink for budding home mixologists! Fully loaded with citrus-laced liqueur, tart lemon juice and a touch of sweet, it's an easy one to shake up.

Sift excess sugar and allow candy to cool completely.

This prevents the pieces from sticking to each other.

Using oiled kitchen shears, cut rope into individual pieces.

When cool enough to handle (this will happen quickly), form into rope.

Mix in lemon extract, citric acid and a small amount of gel coloring.

At 300, immediately remove pan from heat and pour to silicone mat or marble surface.

Heat to exactly 300 deg F, using a candy thermometer to verify temperature.

Heat sugar, water and cream of tartar (prevents crystallization) in stainless steel or copper saucepan over medium/medium-high heat.

Have ingredients all measured and ready to incorporate before starting.

Prepare work stations- sauce-pan, silicone mat/marble/oiled parchment paper on sheet pan, oiled/buttered kitchen shears, oiled/buttered spatula, pan of coating sugar.

That’s it! Make a couple batches and give some to a friend. Sift away the excess sugar and let the candies cool completely. Powdered sugar also works great if you want a more smooth exterior. Super-fine sugar is available commercially, but I just throw some granulated sugar into my food processor and make my own. I have found that super-fine granulated sugar is my favorite coating. Using oiled kitchen shears, cut the rope into pieces into a pan of sugar. When cool enough to handle, you will mold the sugar into a rope of sugary amazingness. Use a buttered/oiled spatula to work in these ingredients. You are in caramel land and there is no turning back. Citric acid can be found in the canning area of most major grocers, as it is commonly used as a preservative. If your sugar is brown, you’ve gone too far with the temperature.

#Lemon drop recipe crack

Once you have your sugar at hard crack phase (300 F), you will immediately remove it from the heat and pour it on the marble/silicone mat/oiled parchment lined baking sheet to work in the lemon essence, citric acid and coloring.

Cream of tartar, or potassium bitartrate, acts as a catalyst in the re-organization of the sugar crystals. When you melt granulated sugar, it will cool into a mixture of crystals, making your candy gritty and terrible.

Let’s pause for a minute and discuss why we are including something that sounds like a condensed soup in our candy-making blend. Once you have your stations ready (because I know you are preparing properly, right?), start cooking your sugar, water and cream of tartar. I am more comfortable with a good ol’ $10 bulb kitchen candy thermometer like my momma always used. Those more experienced in candy-making than I am may tell you that they cook their sugar base to the desired phase (soft ball, hard ball, soft crack, hard crack, etc.) by testing a drop in water to see what phase results. As you cook the sugar longer, you reduce the amount of water in the solution. While the words ‘sugar work’ may send sour chills down your spine with anxiety, but with the right tools and basic knowledge, it becomes simple science! Making candy is all about cooking the sugar. While I won’t be creating a 6-ft tall sugar replica of the Nashville skyline anytime soon, I do enjoy the basics like this hard candy recipe. Some of the results that sugar artists create are exactly that– art. I am partial to the more coarse, sugar-coated version. Most famously the smooth on the outside, slightly-chewy on the inside version and the sugar-coated confection. There are a few well-known versions of lemon drop candies. That perfect mix of sweet and sour in candy… Yes!Īfter you finish reading (and sharing!) this post, you will be able to sneak as many of these bad boys as you can fit into your (and your child’s) pockets into the movies anytime you want!

Generally when it is mixed with tons of sugar. I would, of course, keep eating them anyway. I can remember eating so many lemon candies when I was younger that my tongue would start to burn. We’ll save the drinks for another day, when some most of us have given up on our New Year‘s resolutions. When life gives you lemons (I’m talking to you, Yolanda)… you mix them with vodka, or make candy out of them! For this post, we will focus on the candy. “ They’re a kind of Muggle sweet I’m rather fond of.” – Albus Dumbledore.