Recipe: Apples on a Stick (Red Candied Apples, from Talk About Good, 1960's)

APPLES ON A STICK (RED CANDIED APPLES)

"These should be made the day they are to be used."

2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup Karo (light corn syrup) syrup (red label)
3/4 cup water
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Red vegetable food coloring
12 red apples
12 wooden skewers (Popsicle sticks)

Cook sugar, corn syrup and water in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Continue cooking, without stirring, to 300 degrees F (or until syrup is brittle in tap water).

Remove from heat and set at once over hot water; stir in cinnamon. Stir in the food coloring by the drop, as needed.

Put sticks in apples (insert at the stem end). Dip apples in the candy mixture and remove quickly while twirling until syrup is spread smoothly over apple. Place on rack until hardened.

- Mrs. C. Theroit, Jr.

Makes 12 servings
Source: Talk About Good by Junior league of Lafayette, 1967