Cast Sugar

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      Easy

Appears in
The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef

By Bo Friberg

Published 2003

  • About

For the average pastry chef, casting is probably the easiest way of making spectacular showpieces from sugar, as it does not demand the years of practice and experience that pulled and to a greater extent blown sugar do. Casting sugar can be a relatively inexpensive occasional recreation, but you do need to have the basics down on how to boil and handle sugar. As for most artwork, you need a good eye for color and proportions, you should be neat and precise, and yes, it does take a steady h

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