Definition of Sugar candy

1. Noun. Made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens.

Generic synonyms: Candy, Confect

Definition of Sugar candy

1. Noun. (American English) candy, confectionery ¹

2. Noun. crystals of sucrose ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sugar Candy

sugar-mill
sugar-plum
sugar-plums
sugar-water
sugar alcohol
sugar alcohols
sugar apple
sugar apples
sugar babies
sugar baby
sugar beet
sugar beets
sugar bowl
sugar bowls
sugar bush
sugar candy (current term)
sugar cane
sugar coated
sugar cookie
sugar cookies
sugar corn
sugar cube
sugar cubes
sugar daddies
sugar daddy
sugar diabetes
sugar glider
sugar gliders
sugar high

Literary usage of Sugar candy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Handbook of chemical technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner, Rudolf Wagner, William Crookes (1877)
"The amount of sugar-candy made from beet sugar does not exceed 20 per cent, ... After standing a day to diy, the sugar candy is ready for the market. ..."

2. Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of how to Select, Prepare by Janet McKenzie Hill (1902)
"Boiling Sugar. Candy Making " I can teach sugar to slip down your throat a million of ways." —DEKKER AND FORD. AVERAGE COMPOSITION OF SUGAR AS PURCHASED ..."

3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Ital. candi, candy ; zucchero candi, sugar-candy.— Arabic and Persian qand, sugar, sugar-candy ; Richardson's Arab. Diet. p. ..."

4. Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir Charles Lyell, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, Frank Faulkner, David Constable Robb, Harold Clarence Ernst, Joseph Lister, Stephen Paget, Robert Willis (1910)
"... impurity of the sugar- candy which we employed, and that if this sugar had been pure—much purer than was the ordinary, white, commercial sugar-candy, ..."

5. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"Pour at once into a buttered pan, cool slightly, and mark in squares. Omit vanilla, and add, while cooking, one-fourth teaspoon cinnamon. Maple sugar candy. ..."

6. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"Take hälfe an ounce of лишив christi, one ounce of white sugar candy, and a penny-worth of .... sugar candy ..."

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