Smallbeehive
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Any tips for making it go hard or any recipes people can share please
how to make Fondant go hard?
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Add some icing sugar.
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but make your own icing sugar in a food processor Shop bought icing sugar has stuff added
What are you trying to do ?
Fondant is a malleable sugar 'paste'. If you are making it yourself just use a higher temperature to drive off more water.
This should scale up
2lbs sugar
1/2 pint or less water
1 tablespoon liquid glucose
Heat water, sugar and glucose together until sugar has dissolved, bring to boil, boil to 115 C. Put the pan into a sink of cold water and start stirring with a flat wooden spatula, keep the mixture moving, when it gets harder to stir and has cooled sufficiently to work with hands pour out onto a clean worktop splashed with water, knead the mixture like bread until cool. Wrap in cling film. The glucose keeps it supple.
Fondant is a malleable sugar 'paste'. If you are making it yourself just use a higher temperature to drive off more water.
This should scale up
2lbs sugar
1/2 pint or less water
1 tablespoon liquid glucose
Heat water, sugar and glucose together until sugar has dissolved, bring to boil, boil to 115 C. Put the pan into a sink of cold water and start stirring with a flat wooden spatula, keep the mixture moving, when it gets harder to stir and has cooled sufficiently to work with hands pour out onto a clean worktop splashed with water, knead the mixture like bread until cool. Wrap in cling film. The glucose keeps it supple.
bingevader
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If you want it to go hard, follow Murox's recipe, but pour it into a suitable tray after the "when it gets harder to stir" bit.
It goes a bit like kendal mint cake, but without the mint.
It goes a bit like kendal mint cake, but without the mint.
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Why do you want it to go hard?
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I made some a couple of years back and to be honest it is not worth the hassle..it was to much of a faff on for me and when you see how cheap it is to buy it becomes a no brainer really.
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It’s a real palaver
Candy boards are getting quite popular too.
Heaven knows why
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Care to share the source at this price?
Bako, do a similar price, won't deliver to accredited business addresses unless its a big business (God knows I've tried!!!). A few members of this forum quote Bako prices as gospel...just not obtainable to the rest of us mere mortals.
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Collected from Bako, the van was a little lower due to the 1/4 tonne on board.
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Was that their minimum order?
I don't need a lot per year, just an occasional hive needs a top up, so 12.5kg is overkill for my needs. My nearest Bako collection point is over a 100 mile round trip away, so it works out cheaper to buy from STB and pay postage....plus I don't sit behind a wheel for about 2 hours...
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Bako deliver to my house - had a delivery of 750kg last week. They just leave the pallet on the drive (if you ask them to).
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I have asked them, but they refuse to deliver to our business address as on single track road and they apparently have a big wagon..... Never have I found a company more reluctant to sell you their produce. This is Bako NW in Preston, not the more southern based depots.
Perhaps if I asked for 750kg they might be a little more obliging
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I have asked them, but they refuse to deliver to our business address as on single track road and they apparently have a big wagon..... Never have I found a company more reluctant to sell you their produce. This is Bako NW in Preston, not the more southern based depots.
Perhaps if I asked for 750kg they might be a little more obliging
I deal with the same company. Bako NW in Preston. I think it all comes down to who the rep is.
Ah that will be issue. Their wagon is huge!!!
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