Any tips for making saltwater taffy at home?!
Any tips for making saltwater taffy at home?
I'm making a little cookbook for myself, and I'm including saltwater taffy in the candy section. I found a recipe ( http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/can... ) that I'll probably be modifying slightly, and I wanted to know what people had to say. What worked (or really didn't work) for you? Know any shortcuts or interesting ideas for flavors?
Answers:
I hadn't made salt water taffy in years, so after reading this, I decided to make some yesterday.
I'm a family daycare provider, so after making it, I put the kids to work pulling it, and they had a ball ! They all got to take some home to share with their parents, and they've already asked if they could do it again. :o)
We ended up doing chocolate, but the next time I do it, I think we might try mint and chocolate together.
This is the recipe I tried... and it turned out great!
CHOCOLATE SALT WATER TAFFY
1/3 cup sugar
1/8 cup corn syrup
1/4 c. water
2 1/2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. butter
1/4 tsp. vanilla
Combine first 4 ingredients in saucepan and cook over high heat, stirring almost constantly, until 260 degrees registers on candy thermometer or until a little mixture dropped in cold water forms a hard ball. Remove from heat. Add vanilla and butter; stir and pour onto a greased platter. When cool enough to handle, butter hands lightly and pull candy until light in color and too hard to pull further. Stretch into a long rope, 1/2 inch in diameter. Cut with scissors into 1 inch pieces; wrap in wax paper.
Makes 1 pound.
Well gf, 1st add lotz uv saltwatr, about 36 kupz. Then "borrow" sum taffy & giv it to the salt water and it will be all "YUM YUM YUMMYMMMM MUNCH!" like that backpack on Dora the Explorer.
Make sure you have some muscled people on hand. Making taffy takes a lot of 'pulling & stretching'