Friday, June 19, 2009

Sour Candy Experiment


You have to see these pictures up closer to get the full effect. You can click on the collage to see them closer. The facial expressions are priceless! So, I was given a "sour candy" kit including a pipette, citric acid, corn syrup, flavorings, molds and several directions for making different kinds of candy with different degrees of sourness. The sour scale started at "pucker up" and went all the way up to "help". Boys are the perfect candidates for this kind of kitchen science! They wanted to reach the "help" on the sour scale of course! They followed the directions to make liquid sour grape candy. We dropped bits of sourness on different parts of their tongues to experiment with their sour buds. I think we got a few "pucker" faces. In case you're wondering, yes, I tried it too. It make my jaw hurt and my mouth water like crazy! I've had more sour than that, but I thought they'd added enough "acid" to their bellies for that afternoon! I'll let you know how the sour gummies, sour suckers, and sour marshmallows turn out!
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1 comment:

Jessica said...

That looks like lots of fun. I might have to find this for my girls. They would love it.