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Picture 1 from 15: Next, once the candy has hardened, it is cut into bite-sized pieces. The woman cutting the candy said that this is the hardest step to learn in the candy making process. She said it is easy to break the candy into tiny shards and not into nice slices.

In October, I blogged about a great shop in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood that hand makes hard candy called Papa Bubble.

The last time I was there, they were just finishing a batch of lollipops, but today I caught them earlier on in the process and photographed several of the steps involved in pulling sugar candy by hand. The candy makers were really fun to watch and chatted with me about where they learned to make candy while myself and several others observed. Pretty cool…

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