I have to be honest, when I heard of this I thought it sounded like pretty much the coolest thing ever. I mean, hello! Wine lollipops!
I gathered my ingredients: port wine, salt, corn syrup and sugar. The irony of finding corn syrup in my pantry when we try so hard to eliminate it from our diet otherwise did not escape me. Eh, Kate’s not going to be eating wine lollipops anyway. 🙂
The first step is to reduce to port. That was easy enough. 🙂
Then you add in the corn syrup, salt and sugar
and cook it until it reaches a hard ball stage. Now, I’ve made candy a gazillion few times in my life, but I don’t generally use a candy thermometer. I was getting impatient at the length of time it was taking for the candy to reach the right temperature so I kept bumping up the dial on the stove.
Bad idea.
I decided to finish them anyway. I can tell you that they have a lot of potential, but scorched they are disgusting! Definitely a learning experience.