How is salt water taffy made?!
How is salt water taffy made?
how is salt water taffy made?
Answers:
SALT WATER TAFFY
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup corn syrup
3 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup water
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 tablespoon glycerine
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
Put brown sugar, corn syrup, butter, and water into a saucepan or iron kettle. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, until mixture reaches 256°F, or until it forms a hard ball when tested in cold water.
Add salt and glycerine. Pour onto a greased marble slab and when cool enough to handle (be careful - hot sugar burns!) pull until light in color.
Add vanilla while pulling. Pull out in round sticks the size of kisses. Lightly oil a scissors with vegetable oil or spray. Cut pieces 3/4 inch in length. Roll up in waxed paper and twist ends.
Uh duh with salt water...
? 2 cups sugar
? 2 tablespoons cornstarch
? 1 cup light corn syrup
? 2 teaspoons glycerin (optional)
? 3/4 cup water
? 2 tablespoons butter
? 1 teaspoon salt
? 1/4 to 1 teaspoon flavoring (such as vanilla, lemon, maple, or mint)
? 3 drops food coloring (optional)
? a large (3- to 4-quart) saucepan
? a wooden spoon
? a candy thermometer
? a pastry brush
? waxed paper or plastic wrap
? a marble slab or cookie sheet
? greased scissors or butter knife
Don’t try to make taffy on a rainy or humid day.
1. Mix together sugar and cornstarch in the saucepan.
2. Use a wooden spoon to stir in the corn syrup, glycerin, water, butter, and salt. Place the saucepan over medium heat and stir until the sugar dissolves.
3. Continue stirring until mixture begins to boil, then let cook, undisturbed, until it reaches about 270° F or the soft-crack stage. Wash down the sides of the pan with a pastry brush dipped in warm water while the syrup cooks.
4. Remove the saucepan from the heat and add food coloring and flavoring. Stir gently, then pour onto a greased marble slab or into a shallow greased cookie sheet to cool.
5. When the taffy is cool enough to handle, grease your hands with oil or butter and pull the taffy until it's light in color and has a satiny gloss. You can have a friend help with this step, which should take about 10 minutes.
6. Roll the pulled taffy into a long rope, about 1/2 inch in diameter, and cut it with greased scissors or a butter knife into 1-inch-long pieces. Let the pieces sit for about half an hour before wrapping them in wax paper or plastic wrap and twisting the ends of the wrapper.
Chocolate-Mint Salt Water Taffy:
1? hours 45 min prep
125 pieces
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
1 tablespoon butter
2 cups sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1 cup water
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract or 3-5 drops peppermint oil
1. Melt chocolate and butter in top of double boiler.
2. Mix rest of ingredients, except extract, in large heavy bottomed pot and cook over high heat, stirring constantly, until sugar is dissolved.
3. Lower heat and continue cooking without stirring to 262o (hard-ball stage).
4. Remove from heat, add chocolate and butter, stirring only enough to blend.
5. Pour into a shallow greased pan. Put flavoring in center of the mass and work carefully into the mixture. When cool enough to handle, remove from pan, divide into pieces, and pull until somewhat lighter in color.
6. When cold, cut into bite-sized pieces.
7. Wrap in waxed paper or candy wrappers.