Shake that taffy!

 

The recipe is as follows though I'm still experimenting:

SALT WATER TAFFY

 

Ingredients:

2 1/2 C White Sugar

3 T Cornstarch

1 C Corn Syrup

1 1/3 C Water

2 T Butter

2 t salt

2 T extract

8 drops food coloring

 

Notes: originally this was 1/2 t salt which equaled sugar taffy not salt taffy. Then 1 T of extract wasn't enough so I bumped it up by another T. Some say just 3 or so drops of food coloring but I think that's silly! I made an awesome yellow using about 8 drops so it was still bright.  I also made a nice raspberry color using 9 drops of red and 3 of blue.

 

How to:

1. Butter your glass pans or baking sheets and set aside. A deep square will hold this amount easily.

2. In a medium saucepan stir together the sugar and cornstarch so to make everything lump-free.

3. Add the corn syrup, water, batter and salt, and stir to blend. 

4. Turn on the heat bringing it to a boil over Medium.  You want it to reach 250 degrees F. on the candy thermometer though this turns out pretty soft so you might want to go until it reaches 260...I'm trying this next.

5. Remove from heat and immediately stir in the extract and food coloring.

6. Quickly pour into your baking pan or pans depending on if you plan to make 2 flavors out of this 1 batch.

7. Let cool! Until you can handle it without howling!

8. Stretch by rolling into a big ball or small balls and pass them around to helpers...BUTTER YOUR HANDS, you'll have to do that often probably...and roll into a cylinder then pull and fold.

9. PULL AND FOLD x 1,000,000...or until the color has lightened significantly.

10. Roll into skinny ropes and cut up to either roll in powdered sugar or wrap in wax paper so they don't stick to each other.

 

Note: Be patient! I read a comment that told me to only heat it to 234 and it was a runny mess that I had to toss.  Then I read that some woman waited only 5 minutes to start pulling but it was still waaaay too hot to handle and I just ended up making a huge mess.  I threw away most of both batches but plan to attempt tomorrow.  DON'T HAVE YOUR NAILS PAINTED!!! My nail polish started to flake off into the taffy...green glitter was not a part of the recipe! 

 

I haven't perfected this at all yet, but maybe you can fail along side of me!  I hope to make these next batches useful...maybe I'll just make one batch and split it up...it'll cool faster this way.

 

ALSO...DON'T THINK YOU CAN GET THIS DONE BEFORE WORK BECAUSE IT IS ONE STICKY MESS!