Inga and I have been making lollipops! Her lunch table is having a potluck tomorrow at school. This is the teenager's idea of potluck: someone makes cupcakes, someone makes cookies, someone makes cake, the boys bring soda and Inga is making homemade lollipops. Yes, sexism prevails.
I never made lollipops before but Inga made hard candy at the Glass Museum a few weeks ago so she had some idea of the problems like melting spoons...
She was lucky enough to have a Mom who happened to have flavored oils and powdered citric acid on hand. All we needed were sticks and wrappers and we were good to go.
We wanted molds but we couldn't find any so we just poured little blobs on the back of a cookie sheet. Not perfectly round but perfectly yummy.
I gave my girlfriend one this morning on the our dog walk. About one o'clock she called me from Super Walmart. She wanted a list of ingredients!
| • 1/3 cup corn syrup | |
| • 1/2 cup water | |
| • 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar | |
| • 1/4 to 1 teaspoon flavoring | |
| • liquid food coloring | |
| • 1 to 2 teaspoon(s) citric acid (optional) | |
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Nano6366
nionThey look beautiful and tasty. I will have to email you the picture from last weekend of all the truffles, turtles and toffee covering my dining room table.
From Tamales to lollipops. I am very impressed. Your lollipops look beautiful. I think I'll try those for the neighborhood kids next year instead of gingerbread men. Much more original. I'd also like to see the picture of Rhonda's "truffles, turtles and toffee".
thems look delicious from here in VT! thanks for the recipe!
I recognize Inga's shirt. Samantha has the same one. Did you go see Wicked? Samantha and I went in April and thought it was fabulous!! The lollipops look great. Too bad the kids missed out since it was a snow day.
You are right that is a Wicked T-shirt! We saw it last spring and loved it.
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