Professional Baking Chapter 26

Pulled sugar that is made into thin-walled, hollow shapes by being blown up like a balloon.

A chemical process in which a double sugar splits into two simple sugars.

Sugar that is boiled to the hard crack stage and then poured into molds to harden. Also called cast sugar.

Sugar that is boiled to the hard crack stage and then poured into molds to harden. Also called poured sugar.

Sugar that is boiled to the hard-crack stage, allowed to harden slightly, then pulled or stretched until it develops a pearly sheen.

Boiled sugar made into long, thin threads by dipping wires into the sugar syrup and waving them so that the sugar falls off in fine streams.

A lacy dome of hard or caramelized sugar.