【英语时差8,16】糖果的沸点（上）

Recipes for fudge tell you to heat a sugar syrup¹ to two hundred and thirty degrees Fahrenheit². Taffy recipes give similar instructions, but with a temperature of two hundred and sixty-five degrees. And to make hard candy, you heat the mixture to three hundred degrees. The difference between fudge, taffy, and hard candy is in the amount of water each one contains: the less water, the harder the candy. The temperature of the syrup is what tells you how much of the syrup is water and how much is sugar. At sea level, pure water boils at two hundred and twelve degrees and never gets any hotter. But the boiling point for sugar is much higher than it is for water. And the temperature of the syrup, is a rough average of the temperatures of the two ingredients. Up to two hundred and twelve degrees, the temperatures of the two ingredients may be the same. But above that, only the sugar can get hotter.

1 syrup   

n.糖浆，糖水

参考例句：

• I skimmed the foam from the boiling syrup.我撇去了煮沸糖浆上的泡沫。
• Tinned fruit usually has a lot of syrup with it.罐头水果通常都有许多糖浆。

2 Fahrenheit   

n./adj.华氏温度；华氏温度计(的)

参考例句：

• He was asked for the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit.他被问到水的沸点是华氏多少度。
• The thermometer reads 80 degrees Fahrenheit.寒暑表指出华氏80度。