Christmas eve is in two days, so I thought I'd drop my favourite christmas candy recipe!
Tjong! A homemade minty candy that won't freeze your mouth off ;)
(Please note, this recipe is best done with atleast two people, and you'll need a pair of nitrile gloves each. It also involves touching fairly hot candy, so be careful)
One set of this recipe requires:
4tbsp syrup (light)
4tbsp water
1,5dl sugar
1tbsp butter (approx 50 grams)
Peppermint oil (to taste, my family does about 5 drops)
Food colouring (optional)
Pour in all the ingredients (minus the peppermint oil) into a pan, and heat to 145°C (293F). Add peppermint oil and food colouring of your choice to the molten mixture. Make sure to watch the pan so it doesn't boil over! Then pour the molten sugar onto a well oiled baking tray, waiting for it to cool down a bit.
Put on a pair of nitrile gloves and start forming the candy whilst it's still warm. Stretch it out and fold it into itself over and over again to fill it with air. The candy should get noticeably lighter, usually pastel. Once it's starting to harden you pull it into a long thin worm, grab a pair of scissors and start cutting it. Wrap it in baking paper or powdered sugar once you're done, so it won't stick, and voilà! You've made tjong! Delight in your tasty treats.
This recipe can scale to any amount of tjong you want, but I highly recommend getting atleast one more person to help cut any bigger batch. The candy cools really quickly otherwise.
Oh and here are some photos of tjong I shamelessly stole from the internet, as I couldn't be arsed to photograph my own (they're currently locked away so we won't run out before christmas)