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     Title: CANDIED BLOSSOMS
Categories: British, Candies
     Yield: 4 Servings

     1 c  Sugar
   3/4 c  Water
          Confectioners' sugar
          Rose or violet petals

 Recipe by: "Aine.McManus" <[email protected]>, Select choice
 blossoms and petals;  wash gently,  then spread on flat plates to dry.
 Combine sugar and water; boil until spins a thread when dropped into ice
 water (230 to 234 degrees F on a candy thermometer). Pour syrup into a bowl
 and place bowl on  a bed  of cracked ice. When syrup begins to crystallize,
 hold blossoms with tweezers and dip one at a time into syrup. Place petals
 on  waxed paper to dry. As they harden, dust with confectioners' sugar.

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