Recipe: Candy Apples, 4 recipes

Hi Patrick;
Here are 4 recipes I found on the internet.
Candy Apples on a Stick

1 tbs. butter or margarine
3/4 cup clear syrup (Karo)
1 tbs. vanilla
10 to 12 apple
10 to 12 sticks
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup cold water
Red food coloring (optional)

Wash and dry apples; insert sticks. Mix all ingredients, except food coloring.
Boil, stir constantly until mixture becomes brittle. Turn fire very low, add food
color. Dip apples in candy and place on greased cookie sheet. Enough
for 10-12 apples.

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Candy Apples

2 cups sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
3/4 cup water
4 drops red coloring
2-3 drops oil of cinnamon
10-12 apples

Combine sugar, syrup and water in top of double boiler, place over low heat
and stir constantly until sugar is dissolved and boiling begins. "Keep crystals
wiped from side of pan with fork wrapped in damp cheese cloth". Boil until
syrup reaches 300 degrees. Remove from heat and plunge pan of syrup into
pan of cold water to stop boiling, then put it back over hot water to prevent
it from hardening. Stir in oil of cinnamon and food coloring. Put apples on
candy stick. Dip into syrup hold upright and twirl slowly so syrup will cover
entirely. Place on a well greased cookie sheet.

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Candy Apples

8 wooden ice cream bar sticks
1 cup water
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 tsp. red food coloring
8 small Red apples
3 cup sugar
1/4 cup red hot candies

Insert a wooden stick part way through the stem end of apples. Grease a
large cookie sheet; set aside. In a 2-quart saucepan, combine remaining
ingredients. Over medium heat, heat mixture to boiling without stirring. Boil,
without stirring, until candy thermometer reads 290 degrees, or when a little
of the mixture dropped into cool water separates into thin hard threads, about
20 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat. Tip saucepan, swirl each apple
into mixture to coat. Quickly swirl apple over saucepan to allow any drips to
fall back into the pan. Place apples on a cookie sheet to cool. Cool at least
1 hour before serving.

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Red Candy Apples

1 cup sugar
1/4 cup corn syrup
1/2 cup water
1/3 cup cinnamon
1/2 tsp. red coloring
6 apples
6 sticks

Wash and dry apples. Cook 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup corn syrup, and 1/2
cup water to 300 degrees or hard crack stage. Remove from burner and
add 1/2 teaspoon red coloring and 1/3 teaspoon cinnamon. Cool slightly.
Place apples on sticks and dip one at a time into syrup, twirling to remove
excess syrup. Place on waxed paper.

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