Taffy Recipe
Makes 1 lb. of candy
(Enough for 30 children but be sure
to keep it out of your hair!) And
ask an adult for help using the
stove!
Ingredients:
2 cups light corn syrup
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 teaspoons butter
flavoring (vanilla, mint,
etc.) to taste
food coloring (optional)
Materials:
An enamel pot
A candy thermometer (optional)
A cup 3/4 filled with cold
water
Baking pan that has been liberally buttered
Rubber spatula
Extra butter and waxed paper
Use an enamel pot. Put all the ingredients except flavoring into the
pot and put it it on the stove to heat. Bring to a boil, but do not
stir.
Boil the mixture until a spoonful of the mixture forms a ball when
dropped into a cup of cold water...approximately 250 degrees on a
candy thermometer. (Be careful! If mixture cooks for too long, it will
harden before it cools enough to handle!)
Pour syrup onto a liberally buttered pan. Add flavoring and food
coloring as desired, mixing with a spatula. Mix to cool syrup.
After buttering your hands, take a handful of taffy and continue to
pull it apart into long strands for almost 5 minutes. (Ask an adult
how to do this.) The candy should become opaque and become harder and
harder to pull. Work it into a shape. When the taffy holds it shape,
it is done. Break off small pieces and wrap them in waxed paper for
storage.