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candying

  • present participle
    of candy.
    candy
    noun
    any of a variety of confections made with sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.

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Some confectioners infuse their candying syrup with botanicals, like bay leaves, rosemary or peppercorns, for added intrigue.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023

It’s subtle but transformative to know what sugar feels like in your fingers at different stages of candying.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017

For people had to provide for winter, and there was much pickling and preserving and candying of fruits, and storing commoner things so that they would keep well.

From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda Minnie Douglas

If left for a few weeks longer on the trees, they expand, and become what are termed "mother cloves," fit only for seed or for candying.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

Basket parties bumped him; sticky children tumbled, howling, under his feet, candying his clothes.

From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry