Where can I find a recipe for old-fashioned rock candy?
A favorite of sweet-tooths and science teachers alike, old-fashioned rock candy is fun and easy to make while illustrating the joys of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Rock candy is really just crystallized sugar, a result of a supersaturated mixure of sugar and water slowly cooling until the sugar molecules “stick” together. We decided to leave the specifics up to the experts, however, and searched Yahoo! for “rock candy” recipes (using the quotation marks). Sweet success — we found an abundance of recipes, ranging from super simple to a bit more complicated. One of our better finds was an
