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How to Make Cotton Candy at Home

A wonderful recipe for making cotton candy at home. This method is very easy and uses only a few ingredients, though the challenge lies in shaping the strands to create fine, spun-sugar filaments.

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1 cup granulated sugar1/4 cup water1 teaspoon lemon juice1 1/2 cups flour2 tablespoons gheeReturn to the sugar dough on the surface... Shape it into a large, hollow ring like a donut.This ring is turned into a loop... Dip the loop in the flour-and-ghee mixture and dust it with flour on all sides. Place your hands in the center of the loop and pull from both sides to enlarge it. Twist it together like a hair tie to form two rings interlocked; redip them in the flour mixture and repeat... pull the rings to elongate, then twist into a ring within a ring and dip again in flour, and repeat dozens of times until you obtain thin rings resembling hair strands

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Place the sugar and water over heat and stir well, then add lemon juice.