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The Un-delicious Lollipop

For science class we were looking at sugar. We looked at all the different stages, when heating it. Then we decided we should make sweets using sugar. First we had divide in to two person groups. I was working with Maxx. Each group decided on different stages in heating sugar. Maxx and I choose the Hard Crack stage where you can make lollipops.  We looked up a recipe for the lollipops, and read over it numerous times. Everyday one of the groups would make their sweets, we made our on the last day. The other sweets that were made were gummies, toffee, Carmel apples, fudge, and soda. We were going to make them on Tuesday because we had to wait for the flavoring to come in the mail. When we started we chose we wanted to use the cherry flavoring, then got all our supplies out. We turned the pan on then put every thing in it except for the flavoring. After the about a while we thought the recipe said stop stirring, of coarse you never want to stop stirring. Then the sugar changed colors rapidly, from white to yellow then black. Before we knew it the sugar stated burning, and smoke was everywhere. We turned off the burner and turned the fan on, to get the smoke out of there. The teach took pot and brought it outside so it would not smoke the building, then to keep it from getting stuck to the pot she poured it in a flower pot. The kids went running out side to see the pot full of burning sugar bubbling inside the pot. Maxx and were now worried that we were going to that again, but we went to make another batch, making sure to keep stirring. After it got up to the hard crack stage we took it off the burner and let it cool down to 275 degrees. We then put the flavoring in the mixture, we had to stir it in fast or else it would harden. Since we did not have molds we poured just a little bit at a time and put sticks in them. The out come looked all brown and nasty. When we tasted them it tasted like burnt sugar with too much cherry mixed in there. Everyone spat them out because they tasted so bad. I would say I learned a lot about sugar and their different stages, but failed in making tasty sweets.   

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