Cockerel on a stick. Recipe for the most delicious goodies

Cockerel on a stick is a recipe from the USSR. Remember how to cook caramel on a stick at home? To do this, it was necessary to take a not very crumpled lid from a sour cream jar or from 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 in the lid and, until thickened, put a match with a broken head with one end into the sugar. And wait. When the candy on the stick gets cold and hardens, you need to cut off the foil. You can eat. Delicious! The lucky ones had shapes for making lollipops, consisting of two halves, fastened together, heavy as cast iron. The candies turned out to be scary, but quite edible.

Still it was possible to buy at the market from the hands of the gypsies poisonous red or green candy on a stick in the form of males, horses, bears. Moms often refused to take these sweets from unwashed hands of people of incomprehensible origin. Neither supplications nor tears helped.

Then chupa-chups appeared. This miracle quickly disaccustomed us to make homemade caramel on a stick. But suddenly it turned out that gypsy candy with dirt, compared with imported sweets, is simply an environmentally friendly product, despite the creepy color and unwashed hands of the manufacturers. Bright and intricate candy on a stick of imported production was the storehouse of all elements of the periodic table, even those that are not yet known to science. Doctors began to shout on all channels of television and radio about the "benefits" of overseas sweets, and children began to get covered with diathesis and suffer from an allergy that no drugs took. A joke with a color language no longer pleased moms.

The history of making lollipops

In general, in Russia has long been known cockerel on a stick, the recipe of which included honey and molasses. Candy on a stick in the form of a bear, a rooster, a horse was an integral part of the fairs, and is now considered the same symbol of Russia as a samovar or felt boots.

In some European countries, caramel is produced on a stick with salty taste. There are many different kinds of such sweets: with liquid chocolate or jam inside, with chewing gum, mint, grill. In Asia, candies are made on a stick with insects inside, with the addition of a large number of spices. Lozenges are prepared for getting rid of sore throats with eucalyptus or honey.

Today, forms for making candies at home are sold in any store. They are metal or silicone, but recipes are not always included with them.

Recipes of homemade sweets

How to cook at home candy cockerel on a stick? The recipe is very simple.

Take sugar and water at the rate of 2: 1, add a drop of lemon juice and boil on a small fire until light-golden color. If the candy mass is ready, then 1 drop of it in the water will instantly solidify. Pour the mass over the molds. Do not forget your wand!

Creamy cockerel on stick

Recipe: Take sugar and milk in a 2: 1 ratio, add vanillin and a spoonful of butter. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until the caramel turns into a coffee color. Pour out into shapes.

You can add cocoa or cinnamon, honey or pieces of nuts and candied fruit to sweets. The main thing that was delicious.