How to make carrot candy (imbers)

these candy's are usualy made for passover

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• carrots sugar, and ginger, nuts if you want them

1. you will need 1 pound of sugar to one pound of carrots
   cook carrots untill soft

2. mash carrots and squeeze all juice out, mix sugar and carrots together

3. put on a low light untill the mixture starts to cook, keep stirring ,let it bubble, takes ages but stay with it add ground ginger to mixture while it is cooking, i used to put a few spoofulls of ginger to 4 pound o carrots depends how strong you like the ginger

4. when the mixture starts to stick to the side of the pan, you can test a small amount on a saucer to see if it will set.
   prepare a formica top table to pour out the mixture,wet the formica top first.

5. have a rolling pin ready to roll the mixture keep wetting the rolling pin then immediately cut the mixture into diamond shapes, you can sprinkle mixture with flaked almonds.leave to set
   lovely sweets for passover.

Tips & Warnings

• you must use a heavy pan. the base of a pressure cooker would be ideal.
• this is a hot mixture, be carefull when it is on the simmer dont leave it .
• worth a try so delicious

[LilacGirl]

on 7/12/2008 Sounds delicious.