Home-made Sweets & Candies : 150 traditional treats to make, shown step by step: sweets, candies, toffees, caramels, fudges, candied fruits, nut brittles, nougats, marzipan, marshmallows, taffies, lol

Hard-boiled, chewy, soft or sticky, sweets are the stuff of childhood memories, and the good news is that they are surprisingly easy to make at home.This fabulous book opens with an overview of the history of sweets and chocolates, and a cook's guide to ingredients, equipment and techniques.More than 150 step-by-step recipes follow. Packed with tips and variations, this guide will enable cooks of all abilities to recreate their best-loved sweets and chocolates at home. This volume evokes all those memories of long-forgotten tastes, with recipes for sweets, candies and chocolate confections, whether hard, chewy, soft or sticky.It includes old-fashioned treats and some modern twists on traditional classics.The book also includes a fascinating history of candy and chocolate, a guide to ingredients and equipment, and an in-depth directory of techniques, all explained step by step and with helpful photographs of tricky stages. * Re-create best-loved candies in your own kitchen with this bea