help making rock candy - with sugar and boiled water?

Question

no rocky stuff forms at all.please give full instructions/recipe.

i don't realy want to use a lot of sugar.

Answer 1

INGREDIENTS
1 cup confectioners' sugar
3 3/4 cups white sugar
1 1/2 cups light corn syrup
1 cup water
2 teaspoons cinnamon oil
1 teaspoon red food coloring
DIRECTIONS
Roll the edges of two 16 inch square pieces of heavy duty aluminum foil. Sprinkle the foil very generously with confectioners' sugar.
In a large heavy saucepan, combine the white sugar, corn syrup, and water. Heat over medium-high heat, stirring constantly until sugar dissolves. Stop stirring, and boil until a candy thermometer reads 300 to 310 degrees F (149 to 154 degrees C). Remove from heat.
Stir in the cinnamon oil and food coloring. Pour onto the prepared foil, and allow to cool and harden. Crack into pieces, and store in an airtight container.

Answer 2

INGREDIENTS
6 cups cold water
6 cups white sugar
DIRECTIONS
Prepare your candy growing area by thoroughly cleaning and drying a 2 quart jar. You will need a place for it to rest undisturbed for about 2 weeks.
In a large bowl, place the water. Dissolve sugar in water, a little at a time, stirring each time until sugar is completely dissolved, until no more sugar can be incorporated. Pour sugar water into clean jar and place a bamboo skewer in the jar, being sure the top sticks out over the surface of the water. Cover with a cloth, to keep out dust, and let rest until all water is evaporated and crystals have formed on the skewer, several days.
NOTE: For larger crystals, try "seeding" them, by wetting your skewer and rolling it in sugar before placing it in the sugar water. Be sure not to disturb the crystals as they are growing.

Answer 3

INGREDIENTS
6 cups cold water
6 cups white sugar
DIRECTIONS
Prepare your candy growing area by thoroughly cleaning and drying a 2 quart jar. You will need a place for it to rest undisturbed for about 2 weeks.
In a large bowl, place the water. Dissolve sugar in water, a little at a time, stirring each time until sugar is completely dissolved, until no more sugar can be incorporated. Pour sugar water into clean jar and place a bamboo skewer in the jar, being sure the top sticks out over the surface of the water. Cover with a cloth, to keep out dust, and let rest until all water is evaporated and crystals have formed on the skewer, several days.
NOTE: For larger crystals, try "seeding" them, by wetting your skewer and rolling it in sugar before placing it in the sugar water. Be sure not to disturb the crystals as they are growing.

Answer 4

ROCK CANDY

1 1/2 c. white sugar
1 c. water

Dissolve sugar in the water and cook without stirring until mixture reaches 247 to 252 on candy thermometer.
Have a reusable foil 8 inch square pan ready. To prepare the pan, punch holes at the top edge of it and then lace about seven strings from one side of the pan to the other side. String ends will stick out of pan at outside top on both sides, but will lay on bottom of pan inside. Place this pan in a larger pan to catch excess syrup.

Pour syrup into laced pan to a level of 3/4 inch above the strings. Cover the surface with a piece of aluminum foil. Check the candy occasionally. This amount may take a week to crystallize, depending on humidity.

When crystallized, cut the strings and dislodge the rock candy from the pan. Rinse candy QUICKLY in cold water and then place on racks in a very low oven (175 degrees) until dry.

Answer 5

HARD ROCK CANDY

2 c. sugar
1 c. light corn syrup
1 c. water
1 tsp. oil (not flavoring)
Food coloring
Powdered sugar

Sprinkle cookie sheet with powdered sugar or spread a large piece of heavy aluminum foil and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Mix together sugar, syrup and water. Cook and stir occasionally until candy thermometer reaches hard crack stage. Remove from heat. Add food coloring and oil. Stir and pour on powdered cookie sheet. Cool. Break in pieces.

Answer 6

Here you go!

1/2 c. sugar
1 c. water
1-1/2 c. white Karo syrup
1 tsp. oil flavoring
1 tsp. food coloring (your choice of colors)

Combine first 3 ingredients together in a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Cook to 300 degrees for hard crack. Remove from heat and add coloring and oil flavoring. Pour in cookie sheet sprinkled with powdered sugar. After it is hard, sprinkle more sugar on candy. Then break in pieces. (Oil flavorings are spearmint, cinnamon, anise, wintergreen, peppermint.)

Answer 7

you have to use a lot of sugar, rock candy is nothing but sugar that has re-crystalized. If your not using enough sugar you are not going to get any rock candy