Our research question was how do different types of sugar affect the texture and overall tastes of the cotton candy. It was important to investigate to us because we wanted to see how we could switch up the original recipe and make it a little more modern while still keeping it close to the traditional. We could also learn a little bit about ancient china since thats where it origianted.  We’ve researched many different techniques and recipes and were planning on making the original recipe first (water, corn syrup, vinegar, maltose, and caster sugar) then switching up the sugar to compare it to. We would make it the same by melting everything together over a stove top then putting into donut molds to set. After it set we would stretch it out then overlap it until it was the right texture. We didn’t connect with an adult since most wouldn’t know much about it, but they were curious of the outcome of the experiment.

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