Sugar-candy

(Manuf.) Sugar in the form of large crystals. If, when the sugar is boiled, ready for crushing, preparatory to being placed in the conical moulds (see SUGAR), instead of its being broken up with oars it is poured into pans, acro which threads are strung, crystals will attach themselves to the threads; if these crystals are gradually dried, and then washed with lime water to remove the mola es from their outer surface, the result is S. C. During crystallization the sugar must be kept perfectly at rest, as on this depends the size and regularity of the crystals. It is used instead of loaf-sugar in India, China, . [s. 865]