Cockerel on a stick - a recipe from the USSR. Remember how to make caramel on a stick at home? To do this, you need to take a slightly crumpled lid from a sour cream jar or a bottle of milk, in a large spoon with a long handle over a gas stove, melt the sugar until it turns brown and blisters. Then it was necessary to pour the mass into the lid and, until thickened, put a match with a broken head at one end into sugar. And wait. When the candy on the stick cools and hardens, you need to tear the foil. You can eat. Delicious! The lucky ones had molds for making lollipops, consisting of two halves, fastened together, as heavy as cast iron.
Sweets turned out scary, but quite edible.
You could also buy poisonous red or green lollipops in the form of cockerels, horses, bears from the hands of gypsies at the bazaar. Moms often refused to take these sweets from unwashed hands of people of unknown origin. Neither pleas nor tears helped.
Then came the lollipops. This marvel quickly weaned us from making homemade caramel on a stick. But it suddenly turned out that gypsy candy with mud, compared to imported sweets, is just an environmentally friendly product, despite the creepy color and unwashed hands of manufacturers. The bright and intricate candy on a stick of imported production turned out to be a warehouse of all the elements of the periodic table, even those that are not yet known to science. Doctors began screaming on all television and radio channels about the “benefits” of overseas sweets, and the children began to cover themselves with diathesis and suffer from an allergy that no medicine took. A joke with a colored tongue no longer pleased moms.
The history of lollipops
In general, a rooster on a stick has long been known in Russia , the recipe for which included honey and molasses. A lollipop in the shape of a bear, a rooster, a horse was an integral part of fairs, and is now considered the same symbol of Russia as a samovar or felt boots.
Some countries in Europe produce caramel on a stick with a salty taste. There are many different types of such sweets: with liquid chocolate or jam inside, with chewing gum, mint, roasting. In Asia, they make candy on a stick with insects inside, with the addition of a large number of spices. Lollipops are prepared to get rid of sore throats with eucalyptus or honey.
Today, molds for making candy at home are sold in any store. They are metal or silicone, but recipes are not always included with them.
Homemade Candy Recipes
How to cook a cockerel on a stick at home? The recipe is very simple.
Take sugar and water at a 2: 1 ratio, add a drop of lemon juice and boil over low heat until light golden. If the candy mass is ready, then 1 drop of it in water will instantly harden. Pour the mass into the molds. Do not forget the wand!
Creamy Cockerel on a stick
Recipe: take sugar and milk in a 2: 1 ratio, add vanillin and a spoonful of butter. Simmer, stirring constantly, until the caramel has a coffee color. Pour into molds.
You can add cocoa or cinnamon, honey or pieces of walnut and candied fruit to sweets. The main thing is to be tasty.