Old-Fashioned Hard Candy
Recipe Number: 163
Contributor: Anonymous Rating: Recipe Unrated
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Serves:
1 pound
Calories Per Serving: -
Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Average Print
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Ingredients:
2 cups granulated sugar 1 cup water 2/3 cup light corn syrup
1 teaspoon oil flavoring* Food coloring as desired Confectioners' sugar
Cooking
Instructions:
Mix sugar, water and syrup until sugar is dissolved. Boil on medium heat to 300 degrees F or hard ball stage. Remove from heat. Add flavoring and food coloring and mix well. Odor will be extremely strong at this time, so prepare in well-ventilated kitchen. Pour in streams onto cookie sheet which has been very generously covered with confectioners' sugar. Make little ditches of confectioners' sugar so the candy does not spread too much. Sift more confectioners' sugar on top of candy streams. Cut with scissors into bite-size pieces as it begins to cool and outer edge will hold its shape. Do not wait until it is completely cooled, because it becomes hard and impossible to cut.
Additional
Comments:
* Oil flavoring can be purchased at drugstore or baking supply shop.
