Hard candy is the unique among confections.5 the finished product has the lowest moisture content
of all candies, about 1-3%. It has a lowest ERH about 25 to 35 %, depending up on its sugar s
composition and moisture content. Consequently, it is the most susceptible to humidity damage
and it has to packaged accordingly. The texture of hard candy is often referred to as a glass,
because a good hard candy should have no sugar crystals present. It could actually be called as
solid syrup. The starting ingredients of hard are simple. For instance, sugar, corn syrup, water and
flavor are the ingredients of a hard candy. The possibilities of variation are end less. Many other
ingredients can be mixed into the candy, or folded in, or pumped into the center of the candy. The
treatment given to the candy by the candy makers can alter the finished product in many ways.
Hard candy receives the severest heat treatment compared to other candies, because it is cooked to
290-3000F in open fire cooking. A complete line of hard candy processing equipments is
specifically suited to the product. Included in this line are vacuum cookers, batch kneaders, pulling
machines, heated batch holders, heated rope sizer and various plastic forming and cutting
machines. One of enemies of a good hard candy is inversion, the splitting of the sucrose molecules