Candy: Candy Canes
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
3 cups Sugar
1 tsp Peppermint flavoring
1/2 cups Water
3/4 cups Lt. corn syrup
3/4 tsp Red vegetable coloring
1/4 tsp Cream of tartar
Recipe
The sugar, water, syrup, and cream of tartar you combine and heat till the sugar's dissolved real fine. Divide into two saucepans, boil, but don't stir, please, until each lot is 280F. Add 1/2 ts peppermint to each lot and add the coloring to one, the other not: place 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.
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