Recipe: Homemade Candy Canes (2)

Hi Katie - I haven't tried these recipes.
Happy Holidays! - Betsy

Christmas Candy Canes
Miles Kimball
Any self-respecting Christmas tree has a right to complain If it isn't
decked out with a candy cane.

3 cups sugar
1 tsp peppermint flavoring
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup light corn syrup
3/4 tsp red vegetable coloring
1/4 tsp cream of tartar

Combine sugar, water, syrup, and cream of tartar and heat till the sugar's dissolved. Divide into two saucepans.

Boil, but don't stir, please, until each reaches 280 degrees on a candy thermometer.

Add 1/2 tsp peppermint extract to each mixture.

Add the coloring to one, the other not.

Pour on an enamel or marble table to cool. (First oiling the table, as a
general rule).

Like taffy you stretch and pull and form into ropes of red and white, now twist them around again and again.

And form them into your candy cane.

Now on an oiled surface you allow them to harden, then announce to your
family that these is ready for your Christmas tree.
FROM: DOLORES MCCANN

Forum: rec.food.baking
Date: 12/15/1998
Author: Jay Barnson

This is my friend's recipe...I've never tried it.

Candy Canes

6 c. sugar
3 c. cold water
2 Tbl White Corn syrup or honey
1/8 tsp. salt
1 tsp cream of tartar
flavoring as desired
food coloring

Mix all ingredients except for flavoring, coloring and cream of tartar in a 6-7 qt. saucepan. After the sugar is dissolved, do not stir. Bring to a rolling boil, and wash down the crystals, then add cream of tartar. Boil until it reaches hard crack stage. Pour most of it out onto a greased pan or marble slab. Pour the rest into a small metal dish. DO NOT MOVE UNTIL PARTLY COOL. Turn the edges in, and add flavoring (2 tsp in the pan, 1 tsp in the bowl). Add food coloring to the small dish. Pull the candy in the large pan until creamy, then form into a ball. Form the candy in the small bowl into one long strip. Wrap the colored strip around the middle of the ball. Stretch and roll, twisting to form the traditional stripe on the stick. IF it tends to stick to the surface, use a small amount of flour. Cut into several lengths as necessary. When desired diameter is achieved, cut and form into canes. If the candy gets too cold to work, put on a wooden bread board in a warm oven.