Hokey Pokey

I was intrigued when i first heard of Hokey Pokey. It is a candy popularized by Nigella Lawson which also means honeycomb in Cornish terms. There is no honey in the ingredients but you can see why its called honeycomb from the texture :-). I find it too sweet but hubby likes it very much. 

Note: Please be very careful when working with boiling sugar.

Hokey Pokey
Adapted from Nigella Express by Nigella Lawson

Makes 125g

Ingredients:  
100 gr Caster sugar
4 x 15 ml tbsp Golden syrup
1½ tsp Bicarbonate of soda

Method:
- Put the sugar and syrup into a saucepan and stir together to mix. You must not stir once the pan's on the heat, though.
- Place the pan on the heat and let the mixture first melt, then turn to goo and then to a bubbling mass the colour of maple syrup - this will take 3 minutes or so.
- Off the heat, whisk in the bicarbonate of soda and watch the syrup turn into a whooshing cloud of aerated pale gold. Turn this immediately onto a piece of reusable baking parchment or greased foil.
- Leave until set and then bash at it, so that it splinters into many glinting pieces.