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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" <mcmanus@maths.anu.edu.au>, 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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