Tasty, and a lot of fun for the kids! We add different food colorings for different colors.
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/4 cup water
2 tbsp. white vinegar
1 1/2 tsp. butter, plus extra for the pan and for coating hands
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
Directions:
Combine sugar, water, vinegar and butter in a heavy, nonreactive pan, and stir over low heat until the sugar dissolves.
Raise heat and cook quickly, about 20 minutes, without stirring, until a teaspoon of the mixture dropped into a glass of cold water forms a hard ball.
Watch the boil carefully so the taffy does not burn. Turn off heat and add the vanilla extract.
Pour the taffy onto a generously buttered platter or cookie sheet with low sides. When it is cool enough to handle (adults do everything up to this part), kids grease their hands with butter, take a lump of taffy, and pull and stretch it until it is light and slightly firm.
The more they stretch, pull and twist the candy, the more air they will blend into it, and the more like beach taffy it will get.
Using scissors, cut the lump of candy into bite-size pieces. When completely cool, wrap each piece in waxed paper.
(5 years and 2792 days ago)
What a lovely mess, bet it was fun.
Yeah, the kids had a great time, but the parents got to clean up (it wasn't that bad, though). A lot of fun for everyone, I guess.
Howdie stranger!
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