How To Make Cotton Candy By Hand, Using an Ancient Chinese Method - You Can Do This!
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Clifford Endo is here to tell you that cotton candy is no longer just for carnivals. You're welcome. In this episode of You Can Do This! Cliff uses the ancient Chinese method used to make a dish called Dragon's Beard to spin out over 16000 strands of hand pulled sugar.
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Ancient Chinese method- put it in the microwave for 10 seconds
Most _Dope lmao
cos we got microwave in ancient china!!!! :P
Ha,lol
in china its kinda hot (i think) so i guess they just leave it outside??
+Most _Dope the ancient Chinese used a lot of inverted corn syrup too.
Edible spiderweb for halloween 👍
Ernie Salas agreed
Genius idea!
He needs to fix the tittle of the video 😂
He needs to trim those fingernails
Fifth House really? You might need to look again because i don't see long nails at all
Instructions weren't clear, accidently cooked meth!
True American...
Typical 3 same
@Darrow Au Andromedus oh sweet, can my fellow police mates come?
Y'all stop mething around this is methed up! XD
JESSE
All to be consumed in less than 5 minutes
Juan Alvarez how to get diabeetus in 5 mins
Such is the beauty of all culinary creations
Juan Alvarez it would be so good tho :0 the texture. You are basically eating melty hair 😍
Juan Alvarez well this stuff is allllll around Korea so I can just go out and just buy some😂
I wonder if anyone has ever used this as a wig, lol xD
xiaorishu It was really common during the Ming Dynasty.
Its like any Cotton Candy, it will crystalize after exposed to too much humidity.
I feel like if you were in one of those baking competition on Tv , if you had the time and had to do something with a face make this for the hair. Don't know why this popped into my head been watching to much food network lately.
xiaorishu or a weave.
you know how cotton candy dissolves on wet fingers or in your mouth or when its humid, if you maybe could dip it something that isn't wet that won't dissolve it; that isn't hydroscopic, which there aren't a lot of.
Recipe:
1000g Sugar
100g Corn syrup
2 cups (475 ml) water
1 teaspoon vinegar
Target temperature: 271°F (133°C)
Leo Stoll how long do you let it cool for
@A Bookworm do you let it sit on the side or freeze it?
Thanks man for converting to ml and Celsius
Let it cool for 10 minutes than poor it into containers unless you have good high heat containers. This also works if you cut it in half
Leo Stoll thank you I forgot to write it down
Dragon's beard, nice
Raphael Christofano lol
I am confused as to why he called it cotton candy when it's dragon's beard.
Melanie Vonfange cuz it's basically made out of sugars.
It's not, though. Well, authentically, it's made out of hard honey. And even if it was sugar, wouldn't be the same since cotton candy is made out of heating the sugar and spinning it while this is more of just pulling it a lot. It doesn't taste like cotton candy at all.
yeah...
Looks like someone's hair that's been bleached way to much 😂
Like Jelena Karleuša
I Found Jimin's Jams army
TOO* You're grown use the right words!
Marco Resendez "you're grown" you use the right words lol
Captain Kanari It's slang loser.
When a American uses the metric system
"1000g of sugar"
What about 1kg?
what about you just be happy we saved you from ze Nazis?
@@18deadmonkeys the Nazis just ran into Brazil after the war, even a descendant of the red baron became famous after killing his parents in 2002 (Suzanne von Richthofen)
"Natal, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, in northeastern Brazil, has a very important global geographical strategic position. This fact made the city receive the two main American military bases during World War II: Naval Base and Parnamirim. Field - the time was the largest US Air Force base overseas. "
Thank you (?) Anyway but a thousand grams is funny af
What's a gram again.... "king henery died drinking chocolate milk" So... Where is gram lol
Didn't know that in ancient times they had microwaves
Cavernous the more you know
Or corn syrup ^
Lmao
DirtiestHaRRy agree
DirtiestHaRRy where did u see that from (srsly where gimme a link or smth)
Can you use cocaine instead of corn starch?
Fun fact sugar has the same make up as cocaine but off one molecule so just add that extra molecule
If u want to 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well I mean....you can....o.o’
David Lessard I mean..... if you want it’s just super expensive
Or, instead of hand pulling it, just eat the puck.
Finally a person of quality
If that's the texture you like, then go for it.
well, doing that, you have an unflavored jolly rancher, instead of cotton candy.
I prefer to stimulate things with my hands before I put them into my mouth.
OMG lol
Playing 2048 with sugar?
J Mika lol 😃
🤣🤣 I thought the same
Lol
xD
not just lol but rofl. :) I was also thinking the same thing. I play that game way too much.
For an even more authentic Cantonese style, would be to wrap that around some peanut crunch filling. That shit is the bomb 💣
Nick Cheng I thought that was a Korean desert?
i thought the Indonesians like to claim e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g LEL
it's from China
Ryan Du It started in China -_-
Bobomeetworld we don't claim everything. it's others(malaysians majority) who kept claiming things that are ours, as theirs.
When you're broke and hungry and this is the tenth cooking vid you've watched, it's time to see what some air and spices can be turned into!
Find a hot sauce you like the taste of that isn't super spicy. I find that helps with hunger cravings when I don't have food.
@@Viranical How are you doing? Do you have food?
@@MasterYourUniverse Not well, and just instant noodles.
@@Viranical I hope things get better for you if they haven't already.
@@BL_NKMINDS Ironically I have a lot more food now, but ulcers are keeping me from eating it lol. But that'll hopefully be cleared up soon.
I don't know how yet, but I'm going to practice making this, then use it as and edible cobweb decoration for Halloween, just so I can freak out the neighbors and such by eating it in front of them.
deltasora did you make this? I want to have a go.
It doesn't keep well
deltasora I did that... they were worried
Is Tumblr your home?
I can't do that coz my palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy... Mom's spaghetti
Paul Ian Guillermo I love how everyone likes and nobody comments
+Noelle They keep forgetting what they wrote, the words won't come out.
Paul Ian Guillermo then what you need
Are some
_tendies_
But man you have only one shot and one opportunity, will you take or let it slip !
I can feel you bro, here also have sweaty palms lol
This is probably what we call it dragon hair candy in China
Cheung Carl gonna be honest it looks more like an old man's beard from those slightly rascist American kungfu movies though
whats up dammit man😂😂
That's actually true
He said that in the video
Cheung calling it the Dragon's Beard is correct
龍鬚糖 - with
龍 (Dragon) , 鬚(Beard) and 糖(Sugar/Candy)
It says that right in the video description.
Seeing some of these Cantonese recipes got me wanting to marry Cantonese guy who knows all the hot spots to get food and candy 😂😂
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
Luna Freeman ...or just look them up yourself. But sure marrying someone makes more sense...
lmao XD
The lonely loser who has to insult others to feel temporarily less empty is right on time. Good show.
dee yannie or just insult a ridiculously asinine comment. But hey hopefully she marries you, white knight. Or should I say yellow knight? o_O
I always enjoy these diabetes friendly recipes
Uffeman 😂😂😂😂 you are hilarious
It's diabetes friendly, when your blood sugar is low!
1000 grams of sugar. So healthy for diabetes
There's a kid at my school like that.
@A Bookworm they were joking that the recipe is good for people with diabetes, it obviously isn't as its 99% sugar. also, diabetes is GENETIC for both types, though type 2 can be caused by a bad diet
I love this. We call it the "dragon's beard candy and usually it it with ground peanuts.
Adam Kee Gosh, yes :D Where are you from?? :3
Hand pulled noods tutorial next please
Send "noods" please
Jonray Diamante I was hoping to keep my vision for a few more decades.
Eliza Bear Lps lmao
*s e n d n u d e s*
cat crystal getcho 12yo *weaboo* ass outta here niga
I wish the US would get on the metric system. I'm tired of conversions
J T or you could just leave
Don't be an idiot.
J T you're the one complaining about the US so I think the solution is clear
Tens of thousands of scientists, mathematicians, craftsmen, cooks and even at least one senator have wished for the same. I also would like lower federal taxation and logic and rhetoric to be taught in public schools. I guess in this age of snowflakes and social justice warriors any difference of opinion is resolved by deportation.
Plus I have two years left on my military contract and so couldn't leave anyway.
Me too, some recipes use grams and I can't get a scale. :(
I just went out and bought a candy thermometer to do this
did it work?
@@reddestcherry kind of, it's really hard to make it so it doesn't crack, I got it to 75% work
"For this ancient Chinese recipe, you're gonna need some corn syrup."
ArkadeZach I do hope you know that putting something in quotes like that implies that it's a thing he actually said, which he didn't. He didn't call it an ancient Chinese recipe, because it isn't one, he called it a technique that can also be used on sugar, and you can utilize a microwave. Seriously, it's not that hard to pay a fraction of your attention to what the content creator says before quoting them.
I'm glad my comment depicting an exaggerated summary of the contents of this video required such a didactic response, missing my joke entirely.
ArkadeZach If it was a joke, sorry, guess it wasn't funny enough for my sleep deprived brain. Just sounded like more idiotic white noise of pedantic people complaint about an awesome technique used to make awesome treats.
Neph Drummond It's okay. RUclips comments really are just the worst, I totally get it.
Yay I wish more RUclips comment arguments were like that, made my day
I am from Hong Kong. Dragon's Beard is still found here. It is eaten with chopped peanuts wrapped inside. A box of 6 little pieces is about 1.5 USD, sold mostly at street stalls. I used to love eating them because of the cuteness, sweetness and funny texture. But now I find them a bit too sweet for my taste, and can eat up to maybe 2 or 3 pieces per day. I still buy them from time to time though just to remind myself of the look and feel of such classic candy, which is getting rarer these days. Thanks for making a video about Dragon Beard, and introducing one of my (and many more Hong Kongers') favorite food growing up to the world. I actually have never thought about how the silly strings are made, and now I learned.
"i'm listening to the sugar" yeah same dude
I was thinking
"wow can i do the same thing with dough?"
2 minutes later i realized i was just making cellophane noodles
Well atleast i had some pork
@@stevethea5250 what?
You just can, but also must! noodles are made in that way, but another ingredients
@@minka866 Are you sure? I'm pretty certain that the ingredients for noodles is 100% sugar?
@@Gibblo11 dude he did it with just dough
1000grams of sugar, so you mean 1kg of sugar?
1:41 ok today we will make some crystal meth
5 2/3 cups of sugar. 1/2 or half cup of corn syrup. Saved you the trouble 😉
Calum Goetz Thanks
Calum Goetz thanks
Bro I did it with these proportions and it won't harden. What did I do wrong?
Thank you!
Nevermind I'm a moron I didn't see the five
Nice video! Subbed!
Eudaemonius MarkII why is this on my recommended I hate things like this it's just too boring
Thunder Likes To Play Then why click on it if you find something that's pretty amazing boring? :/
Eudaemonius MarkII FYI he's doing it wrong...just look up dragons hair candy and watch an Chinese dude do it
@Kyle Schlapkohl , or you could commend him for attempting a difficult thing and making a nice watchable video.
Not only that, he has inspired others to try it at home too. Don't tear people down, inspire them to do more, be more.
Programmers are geeking listening to him count the strands...
Until he gave up on 8k but basically yes
Classic base 2
They only sell this at my country during Chinese New Year... or at the temple. Lol and guys please try this is so good I'm not even kidding
helpful hint: if the sugar strands start to get too stiff, heat up your flour a little bit in the oven, it'll help keep the strands pliable
cmrocker3 Just saying, it had to have taken effort to type "flower" instead of "flour" there, unless you don't know that "flower" only refers to those plant things with petals, so I assume you made an honest mistake :)
Neph Drummond lol yeah honest mistake. I blame my 3am brain which is when I think I posted this
cmrocker3 I know that feeling, it's almost midnight here, and I only got 4 hours of sleep yesterday.
many people actually use rice flour which I believe is more traditional..but its really all the same tbh
No its not all the same or it would all have the same name and be the same.
Yeah I'm not sure I'd consider this cotton candy. Like it says in the description, but not the title- This is Dragon's Beard.
Same thing dumb dumb, it’s just strung out crystal sugar. I bet you think left and right Twix bars are actually different as well lmao.
I bet you think toast and pizza dough is the same thing.
coolio diablo Of course they are, one is on the left, the other is on the right :p
Actually they are the same thing, this is just done by hand. A cotton candy machine just pulls the sugar strands much finer
Cooking with science. Interesting and I want more so I subscribed 😊.
Joon Smiths thanks for likes 😊.
gaju masarre I did to #lol I am going to do that thing he is doing and I subscribed
Felicia Keisha let's see how interesting videos we get from this channel 😊.
Wish I could do this in class
Byrd H I also want to do bro 😊.
I haaaate how cornstarch feels on my hands this would be complete torture
you could prob use powdered sugar
Max Arakelian powdered sugar will melt more easily in your hands and mix with the candy floss creating a sticky mess... cornstarch dries out your hands and doesn't absorb the oils from them as easily therefore keeping the sugar dry
Max Arakelian Uh, what do you think powdered sugar is? Hint: it has corn starch in it.
Mike Trieu no it doesnt lolol
Rebecca Weber yes it does. to avoid caking
For anyone who doesn't have access to a scale, you can use 1180 ml of sugar, and 1/3 cup of corn syrup and one tsp of vinegar
Dingle Berries, life saver
Don't even need the corn syrup. What you're looking for is a mixture of glucose and fructose. Table sugar is sucrose, which is glucose and fructose bound as a single molecule. Adding an acid (the vinegar) breaks the link in sucrose and creates inverted sugar, aka a mixture of glucose and fructose, aka corn syrup. So basically, you could do this recipe using corn syrup alone, or you could use only table sugar (sucrose), and convert it to glucose+fructose using an acid. Vinegar is used as the acid, but you could also use lemon juice, citric acid or cream of tartar.
Thank u
So about 5 cups?
1000g? You can just say a kilo
Kuroi Kenshi who doesn't know what a kilo is?
Btt Americans
Yeah, Americans definitely use metric. What.
Candy Choo 1231 millilitres of shame
Candy Choo ... you can also say 1000 grams
"Let's cook." - Walter White
Karl Månsson this comment is everything.
all part of a whole balanced meal
Looks like tana mongues bleached hair extensions
NA NA NA NA BOO BOO! Lol
NA NA NA NA BOO BOO! Inhale
Nooooo😂😂😂😂😂😂💀
So you basically just told us how to eat sugar after a ton of work
You could say that about LITERALLY ALL CANDY.
[sic] ikr
You gain back the calories you burned
In Turkey we also do one of our dessert in the same way.
I know pismaniye we have it in germany too I could eat a whole bucket of this😍
@@hajra637 Yess 😁 you know it.
Wow! What is it called?
@@Ir1sss_ pişmaniye
The pismaniye was the first to be invented and the chinese one was just derived from it... i donno how it's called 'ancient chinese'
What hard work😓. Not good for lazy people😫
Can you store the pucks for later? if so, how long? p.s those strands make me think of Falkor and making one with them.
Alessandro Scott for several years if you want
Cheetah Kek its sugar keep it sealed and cool/dark and ur good2go for years
Tukukado or could freeze it for longer, sugar preserves very well it doesn't go bad in a dry or frozen state
Can you even get water up to that temperature? I thought it evaporates at 100° and pulls energy from the rest of the fluid due to change in phase state keeping it at exactly 100°
He was talking farenheit
Water only goes to 212 Fahrenheit. Water is used so the sugar doesn't scorch in the pan, once the water boils off the leftover sugar is melted and can go to higher temps.
In Indonesia we called it 'rambut nenek' (grandma's hair)
bohong
The taste of victory
SharkByte GD 1ABZBNBZG.BBBBA
Taste of heart problems
XD this dude is keeping count of each flip knowing me I would have forgotten easily
but how doesn't that start to lag the world with so many strands?!! hax??
The Swedish Girl Hyperthreading
Jacob1314 you saved her absolutely stupid comment. Haha
Jacob1314 Lol good one
The Swedish Girl GAMER JOKES
why do u insult her lol?
Ooh yummy! I want to do this but I don't have a device to measure the temperature haha.
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Thank you for sharing this! I missed eating this childhood candy when they were sold as street food near the subway station in HK -Dragon Beard Candy 龍鬚糖
阿宝 Lung So Tong
Long Xu Tang in Mandarin
they still sell some near the peak
mainland 龙须糖
Dragon's beard candy, the ring should be cut into small pieces and wrapped around crushed peanuts, sesame seeds, crunched chocolate, or coconut inside. But you got the hardest part done anyway.
I wouldn't mind an extended version of this that follows the process in real time. Probably be relaxing
Watch this one : ruclips.net/video/YrO0OX62ykE/видео.html
watch korean dragon beard candy making
I hate math
Croppy Doodle HEAR HEAR! THE LORD HAS SPOKEN!
hate math do meth
I usally eat those when i visit hong kong, they call it glutinous rice candy and are filled with nuts.
We dun call it glutinous rice candy, we call it dragons beard.
manhimanh Glutinous rice candy is something completely different...and ya know...made of rice.
Yeah i googled it but it was appearantly labeled as glutinous rice candy for some reason at the dragon center in hong kong i was in.
manhimanh is it soft and chewy?
I'm not cool no the strands have a kind of crispiness to them but they melt in your mouth and are very delicious
0:31 "A thousand grams of Sugar" HAHAHAHA... a.k.a ONE KILO everywhere else but U.S
I wanna do this just for the satisfaction of pulling the stings
*THANKS!*
This is like *THE ONE SINGLE SOURCE on the internet on how to make inverted sugar,* I have found one other text documentation but much less documented.
How long does this take? This is an interesting lesson in exponents.
Think i'd have to shave my forearms before trying this.
I'd like to order 2 Megabyte, please...;)
i love how you wrote good things like "You can do this" i love that :3
it would probably be easier to just build a cotton candy machine, you only need to make a spinning canister with mesh sides oh and like a bucket so you don't spray hot sugar everywhere
Diethyl and it actually tastes sweet because it isn't covered with starch lol....
Diethyl lol wayyy more different than cotton candy. If you've ever tried it you would never compare the two.
Diethyl or just cut the top of a whisk off and dip the spokes into the hot sugar then wave it back and forth over a nonstick mat, or even into the corn starch. I saw Martha Stewart do it and it worked surprisingly well. It actually looked like cotton candy when you get the technique right.
If we're going for easy, we can just buy cotton candy.
Or just drink liquid sugar
Oh so you made dragon's beard....
We sure did!
Richard Ramos That's what he said! (:
whatever i guess and Eater channel, maybe I'm wrong here but I'm pretty sure that Richard was wondering why Eater labeled the video "cotton candy" which is pretty misleading, since this would neither taste like cotton candy, or be made like it, you both seem happy that someone understands, but I'm pretty sure that's not the right reaction. Don't get me wrong, the video was enjoyable, but I was like "cotton candy? I've been trying to find a method, maybe they have one" *watches the video* "oh...so they didn't make cotton candy, they made noodles of a sugar syrup covered in corn starch, which is an entirely separate thing, called dragons beard."
Richard Ramos brother is that you
Richard Ramos and ûgèh
I tried making it and i did everything exactly like you said but it still didn't work do you have any idea what I could have done wrong it looks like it crystallized after we put it in the containers
That happened to me to and I followed the instructions exactly
中华文明上下五千年，你跟我说龙须糖是土耳其的？怕不是石乐志。而且看名字还不岷白吗，龙须糖诶，只有中华大地的龙才有胡须
中文他们又看不懂 ˊ_>ˋ那群人没文化真可怕
墙外智障多如狗，出国之后就习惯了
Who's here from Corrine vs pin?
Nope
Yep
tøp trash #fam
U prob mean threadbanger
BlameThePuggie if you didn't if you don't comment yes that means no you do not need to say nope it's people like you that do this annoys me stop
My 1st time watching your page. Omgoodness this is amazing. My hand strength wouldn't allow me to do this, but it's so amazing!!!!
*DIABEETUS*
GermanCurl WEBTOON I LOVE YOO!
1,000 g of sugar is about 4 1/2 cups......
Idek Surprise! Cotton candy is almost 80% sugar what did you think it was?
Next surprise! Diabetes isn’t being unable to eat sugar nor will you get it from eating too much sugar
Idek actually, since he separated it into four containers, each one is about 1 1/8ths cup of sugar.
What if my hand gets too sweaty and it heats up the sugar and melts it all together?.....
Corn starch in your hand will dry out the sweat from your hands
Bro chinese didnt have corn how is this an ancient method?
Fausto Torres lmfao
Rice flour
he is now my favorite food person thingy
Alex Santi
we make the same thing in India..
WE CALL IT Soan-papdi..
Pakistan too
People unable to make recipes without corn trash. Is unfortunate
I’ve been trying to make this for the past 2 weeks and every time I try it either breaks while pulling and falls apart, I burn myself while trying to make it or a piece would break off and cut me…. I ruined a good saucepan and I broke my candy thermometer and I had to buy a new one…. YOU MAKE THIS LOOK SO EASY!!!!!
Annnnnd subscribe
RUclips Recommendations Anyone?
4:52 You can make dessert candy pasta!😋
can you do one with using honey like the koreans do it ?
Ik I’m late but I was wondering if powered sugar could substitute the cornstarch
I did this with a fruit burst! it worked but took a little bit of time.
Nude rat acually thats frikkin smart i wss concerned about doing this since i dont got the thermometer but now ill just go buy some starbursts and im good tongo
Smart
Where did the ancient chinese get the corn syrup from?
Alfonse Dente what about using rice syrup
Alfonse Dente
They traded with Native Americans, obviously.
Aliens of course duh!
The ancient chinese part is the pulling and twisting technique, not the actual sugar. The technique was used to make the long, thin noodles popular in china
The corn syrup part is with the thermometer, that said they’re integrated into this way of making it, not to imply that they had corn syrup and a freaking thermometer back in ancient china lol
"Remember Jesse, exactly how I did it"
Thank you I’ve always wanted to make this and this is so clear on what amount of ingredients to add. It’s so easy to follow along.
Could you use coffinated sugar rather than corn starch?
Whaler Sailor I'm not trying to insult you penne mean here, really, but what word is that? Did you mean caffeinated? That's the closest word I can think of, but it makes no sense. Did you mean powdered? That would make sense, but it's a very different word.
They meant confectioners
Freya ? Ah, that makes sense, don't know why it didn't occur to me.
Neph Drummond lol
Whaler Sailor i dont think so, corn starch is present to avoid sticking of the strand. But you could mix both.
So I uh didn’t have a candy thermometer and I’m to broke to buy one so I just eyeballed it.
I can appreciate this labor intensive method I just would never want cotton candy that badly.
It would probably be a fun thing to teach kids to help them understand exponents.
I don't have this thermometer, what should I do ?
Plz tell fast
Boiling temperture is wait 25 mins
SORRY ,MY ENGLISH IS NOT GOOD,CAN YOU WRITE THE RECIPE?
About to try this but first I wanna know has this worked for anyone else
TerrariaGuides did it taste good?
It worked for me ;)
Random person On RUclips what if we dont have thermometer???
85% of comments are national names for this food
in my country we call it cotton candy🇺🇸
cody cody in turkey its called pışmanıye
cody cody in England we call it candy floss 😂
Dev tr In the UK its called Candy floss
I'm wondering if your cotton candy on a stick is that flowey and smooth?
Anyway it doesn't really taste like cotton candy with the starch and the fact there no flavoring as there is almost always flavor in cotyon candy
But they are both pulled sugay yeh
Barbe à papa :)
I used a deep fry thermometer and followed the recipe right exactly to a T, I didn’t stir it and I was waiting for my thermometer to go to 260F (as per the recipe says) and it was burnt I made sure it wasn’t touching the bottom of the pot, so I tried again being very careful and conscious, it was still burnt but not as much as the other one. Both batches hardened immediately? Can you help me please??
it's Confucius' beard
make sense～
Thats beautiful.
How does the cornstarch affect the flavour? Is it possible to use confectioners sugar instead?
Possibly! Only problem that you might get with that is it'd be sticky
LustyBear maybe you can use gloves if you want to use confectionar's sugar, that way there won't be moisture from your skin to dissolve the sugar into a gooey mess, but I'm honestly not sure how much of an impact that makes. Cornstarch can absorb moisture to prevent clumping and is often added to powdered sugar for that reason :/ if you do succeed with powdered suger I'd be interested in that! :D
Confectioner sugar aka icing sugar is literally really fine sugar mixed with cornstarch anyway. Give the strands a good shake and it'll taste fine, well done dragon's beard definitely tastes a lot less starchy than icing sugar.
traditionally this is done with raw honey... >:C
I mean, that's cool and I would have never thought of how to do it, I'd rather spend $1 for a bag. But I guess its the concept here that we're taking in.