Sugars: Soft Caramel and Sucre à la Crème – an Undergraduate Experiment about Sugar Crystallization
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Abstract
Candy-making entails finely controlling the phase transitions of aqueous solutions of sugar. Both kinetic and thermodynamic aspects of sugar crystallization are indeed at play in the art of confectionery. This chapter illustrates the undergraduate-level concepts by preparing and contrasting soft caramel and sucre a la creme recipes that, remarkably, differ only in their tempering. It provides some background on these two candies and detail the physical chemistry involved in controlling their sucrose composition and microstructure. While soft caramel is a fairly generic candy, sucre a la creme is associated with a geographically specific region. Its precise origin remains uncertain, but its deep connection with the French Canadian experience is undebatable: one of its key ingredients, maple sugar, is indeed indigenous to the north east of the American continent.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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