Colorful lollipop, favorite childhood treats all has a familiar taste, simple and at the same time refined. A variety of colors and shapes, ease of preparation in the home allows sweetness remain popular for many years. What is so special about this culinary masterpiece basic in what it is so attractive for all segments of the population that remains a favorite for life?

Provenance

Caramel - one of the oldest inventions of mankind. This sweetness is produced in many countries around the world. Hard or soft candy, made from sugar, molasses, syrup is known for more than five hundred years. Fix candy on a stick for easy licking or sucking.

"Lollipop" - only the Russian name of caramel. In Russia they called Feast of the similarity of the ice. Translucent slice of melted sugar is really very similar piece of ice. The first mention of this kind of sweets indicated the end of the XV century. The most popular was the "cock", but the first were still "houses", "fish", "Christmas tree" because of the simplicity of execution. The prototype of the royal fiery bird embodied in the culinary arts through two or three hundred years after the invention of the first treats.

In the second half of the XVIII century the English cooks invented the treat of sugar, molasses, called Lolly-Pop, which means "language" and "knock". It is noteworthy that it was soft and not hard. American entertainment is a multilayer colorful spiral shape is a circle. American Bright candy began to prepare a hard candy.

French cooking in medieval times were made from boiled sugar candy. Sweets were offered only the aristocracy who served slices of cured product using a variety of tools to make it easier sweet tooth.

Spanish lollipop Enric Bernat invented in the mid-twentieth century. Please note that the children after eating sweets wipe sticky hands, he stuck a stick in the still frozen caramel. So to get the first lollipop Chupa Chups, this famous candy was born in 1958. Quickly became a household name today so called all spherical lollipops, regardless of manufacturer.

Thus, lollipop invented in different countries at different times. At the same time the popularity of the product remains the same throughout the world, all the kids just love feast.

Formulation

Initially, for the preparation of classical candy sugar is melted at high temperatures, boiled to a thick consistency and acquiring mass brown. Next caramel poured into an iron or glass shape, greased. Sticks sticks, allowed to cool in the water. After some time, ready sweets removed. Tins of caramel Caramel: sweet treat   appeared with time more and more complex, candy began to produce in the form of animals, people, objects and buildings.

Treats on a stick are:

• Classic - prepared with the addition of molasses, water without preservatives;
• Flavored - with the addition of flavoring colors, flavors;
• All kinds of forms: cockerels, fish, spirals, houses, icicles;
• With a variety of flavors: milk, fruit, chocolate;
• Healing;
• Preparation of frozen berries;
• Home or factory workmanship.

In modern cooking used to prepare sweets sugar, molasses, flavorings, colorings. Currently, classic meet, without additives, is difficult to treat. Manufacturers offer flavored sweets: coffee, fruit, milk, chocolate, and a variety of colors. Often, in addition to the usual products used preservatives, unnatural colors, flavors. These sweets are not recommended to give pre-school children, and adults better than them not to get involved.

Homemade sweets on a stick

For homemade sweets are all kinds of specialties prepared on their own. Many recipes reduced to one basic - molten sugar ostuzhennoy form. For color and flavor used juice, fruit drinks. Perhaps the most useful are the goodies with the addition of natural ingredients, excluding all kinds of preservatives.

At home, make a useful sweets with fresh fruit, vegetable juice or puree. To do this, add a small amount of pulp in the sugar mixture before cooking. Use apples, pears, oranges, tangerines, lemons, peaches, apricots. The most popular vegetables are carrots and beets. In addition to utility and taste, fruits and vegetables give a beautiful color, flavor, provide the body with the necessary vitamins Vitamins for everyone .

Medical sweets prepared with the addition of herbal concoctions. Extracts of peppermint helps with sore throats, coughs, colds, relieve the symptoms. Infusions of chamomile Chamomile: the rays of beauty , Nettles and other herbs help to strengthen the immune system, fighting the diseases of internal organs.

Thus, home-cooked candy can be not only beautiful and fragrant, but also really useful. With different kinds of goodies, treatment or prevention of diseases for a small child would be a joy. The modern market offers a variety of different forms of self-production of lollipops.

You can do without a form. To do this, melt in a saucepan or skillet sugar, possibly with the addition of aromatic substances, and then dipped in molten sugar on a stick put on a piece of banana or an orange slice or paradise apple or peach slices. After cooling, the caramel hardens, and get a very tasty and elegant candy. For the production of such lollipops can use any fruit and berries with firm flesh, including frozen.

Maria Bykov

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