candying
- 1Present participle of candy.
She has been candying citrus peel all afternoon for the holiday menu.
Candying ginger requires boiling the slices in sugar syrup several times.
Note
The -ing form serves two different uses of the verb. Most often it takes an object, as in candying peel or candying ginger, and means cooking in or coating with sugar syrup. Without an object it describes sugar crystals forming in or on something by themselves, as when a syrup starts candying in the pan. The same form also works as a gerund that names the process.
The syrup was candying around the rim of the pot before she noticed.
Stir gently, or the mixture will start candying as it cools.
candying is a form of candy
candy, verb: To cook food in sugar syrup, or to coat it with syrup. Full entry
- Spelling
- candy → candying: add -ing
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