• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Cook Time:15 minutes
• Total Time: 25 minutes
You'll Need:::
• Cook Time:15 minutes
• Total Time: 25 minutes
You'll Need:::
• Small nylons (Type used in tying granulated sugar for sale with a pointed edge)
• Broom sticks or toothpicks
• Broom sticks or toothpicks
Ingredients:::
• 1 cup Granulated sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1 tsp. Lime or Lemon juice
• 1 tsp. Lime or Lemon juice
Directions:::
Step 1: The fist step is to prepare the cone. You could use Aluminum foil (cut up into little squares) for this or you could use nylon bags (the type used in tying sugar for sale). Either way, you'd get the desired end product. Set this aside
Step 2: In a small pot, dissolve 1 cup of sugar in 1 cup of water. Place the pot on the burner and heat up on medium heat. Leave it to boil for a while till the sugar starts to caramelize and turn brown. Once you notice this, turn off the burner and leave to cool just a little.
Step 3: This step should be done quickly. Get out your pointed edged nylons or foil and quickly pour in little quantities of the sugar caramel before it hardens in the pot. Add the broom stick handles quickly and hang somewhere to harden. Once it hardens, you can now remove the nylon and enjoy your sweet :D.
Immediately I saw this, I bursted in to laugh. It brought a whole lot of memories back. Chai! So na sugar and water we dey lick in those days? Godwin... Dobby u are indeed very good.
ReplyDeleteThank you God pikin :)
Deleteyeeppaa!!! i remember this thing o! Lmao! Na real jedi jedi.
ReplyDeletelol!
DeleteKai! You just brought back fond memories from growing up. Growing up in lagos was so much fun. Used to call it baba gowon I think. Please teach us how to make "kokoro".
DeleteThanks Vivian. You can learn how to make Kokoro HERE
DeleteNever knew the name is Ekana Gowon, I use to call it stick sweet.
ReplyDeleteI remember those days.
That's so true. That's another popular name for this sweet.
DeleteSo it was sugar and water? My God!! We ate some things
ReplyDeletelol! we really did :)
Deletehahahahaha so it's just sugar and water! my-oh-my, I never knew!
ReplyDeleteit sure is :)
DeleteHehe! Dobby, my food blogger crush, I love that you research the food you post. This one brings back memories of a great childhood, thank you. In Daura we also call it halawar tsinke (candy stick). Thanks!
ReplyDeleteAwww!!! Thanks Ummibee :)
DeleteI always saw it but was not allowed to buy *sad face* I wish I had had it back then. But this Dobby sha...how in the world did you think up this recipe?
ReplyDeletelol! Now you can make it at home. I guess i'd say years of experimenting when i was much younger.
Delete... we called it licky licky back then in primary school. :)
ReplyDeletei tot licky licky was black velvet tamarind
DeleteWow. This makes me remember my primary school days. They were wrapped in brown paper and sometimes I ate bits of brown paper with the sweet 'cos I couldn't peel it off completely. Nice post
ReplyDeleteThanks itee
Deleteah...dis wan na dysentery o
ReplyDeleteNigerians can be very competitive eh! Even in spiritual things.
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Yayyyyyy!!!! We call it hanjinlegidi... I so much luv it back then.. never knew we were licking just sugar and water Chai! Dobby nyc 1.
ReplyDeleteThanks Anon :)
DeleteYummy! I remember these.. good ol memorieess
ReplyDeleteit sure was
DeleteCan I do a variation with flavoring n color?
ReplyDeleteYes you can.
DeleteYeeee dobby I chop wella. But u miss one thing we dey add a dash of lime 4 tingly sour 4 throat back den. We dey call am hanjinligidi
ReplyDeleteReally? would try that out.
DeleteVery interesting post.
ReplyDeleteThank you Tosmoniyi
DeleteAhhh! I remember tis alot. Back in Warri_ where I grew up_ we called it Ojukwu Finger. There was even a story going round then that A took it from B and forgot it in her pocket and so A's mother was washing her uniform and found a human finger in A's pocket intead of the 'Ojukwu Finger' Lol!
ReplyDeletelol! That's hilarious & scary. i heard such stories growing up too.
Deletelike seriously!
ReplyDeletewhere did you dig this up lady?!
DAMN!
I ate it like a zillion times when i was young.
ekana gowon!
yes oooo so so lovely
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