Reviewed: Sep. 24, 2007

Fantastic...with a few additions! Note to self: Do NOT use raw sugar. I made this first with raw sugar because coming from Australia, it's cheaper. It went all hard and sugarcubey. Disgusting. I tried it again with caster sugar/white sugar..added, 1 tsp chinese five spice, 1 tsp aniseed essence and 1 tsp vanilla essence and it came out beautifully. For Aussies: the temp. of sugar rose to 125 degrees celcius before it was ready. YUM!

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Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Living In: Catania, Sicilia, Italy

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Reviewed: Aug. 15, 2007

Quick, simple and beautiful! The candy is very hot and begins to set up quickly. It does have to be done in a hurry, but even if the twists aren't perfect it still comes out great. My only changes were adding different extracts to different batches for more flavors, and food colorings so I could tell them apart.

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DraickinPhoenix

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Home Town: Charleston, South Carolina, USA

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Reviewed: Jun. 19, 2007

Hmmm, I'll admit this was my first attempt at making a candy of this type. I had no problems working with the candy (man was it HOT!), or making the nice twisty shapes, they look beautiful, but I was hoping for more of a tart flavor (or any flavor for that matter) If I were to make these again I would probably add a lemon or cherry extract for a little flavor.

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Living In: Hauppauge, New York, USA

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Reviewed: Feb. 23, 2007

Thanks for the recipe! And yes, this is fun. I didn't have cider vinegar, so I used rice wine vinegar. I also added a couple of drops of red food coloring, anise extract, vanilla extract, and a bit of ground cardamon. (I needed to clean out some pantry ingredients!) The flavors seemed to work really well. I wasn't too hot at getting pretty shapes, but who cares?

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Reviewed: Jan. 28, 2007

(First time trying to make candy) Very easy recipe! I added a little blue sugar at the last minute, and because my twists weren't exactly twisty, it ended up looking like broken glass! Lots of fun!

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Reviewed: Oct. 29, 2006

My family loved this candy. My only problem with it was that I didn't taste any tart that I was expecting. And my 1st attempt at pulling and twisting that candy was a disaster but it tasted wonderful anyway.

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