Old Fashioned Candy Hard in Little Squares Mostly Seen at Christmas
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12/23/2006
Splendid recipe, and very like shooting fish in a barrel to make! Instead of cutting into strips, I permit the processed harden completely, and so bankrupt information technology into pieces by hitting information technology with a mallet. My hubby loves this! Strawberry oil flavoring is my favorite. Go to a local bakery's store, and you tin notice ~50 dissimilar choices of oils to brand this candy with. Don't exist afraid to experiment! Thanks for sharing this recipe!
12/thirteen/2007
I brought this to work for a 'care for day' and accept spent the whole day blushing from the compliments! I used about a tablespoon of lemon extract and two drops of yellow food coloring, and spread information technology out on that new Reynolds 'release' foil, then cut it in squares when it was taffy consistency with a pizza cutter, broke them apart when they were cooled and dipped each in powdered sugar earlier putting them in the storage container. PERFECT!
12/03/2005
We made this when I was a child too!!! Information technology was our special family tradition and we first learned information technology when my grandmother participated in baking for a church bazaar. One year, when I was ten and we were pretty poor, this was the only souvenir nosotros gave to those beyond our immediate family. It was well appreciated by friends, teachers, and acquaintances. We made different colors and flavors - Peppermint was pink; raspberry red; spearmint green; wintergreen blue; lemon xanthous etc. Nosotros placed them in small decorative jars and tied a ribbon effectually the neck of the jar. Very fun! Information technology'south been many years since we fabricated this recipe. Grandma says this i is an exact match with hers, except with hers you used 1 whole cup of Karo instead of 3/four loving cup.
12/07/2006
Our church building circumvolve made these years ago. Things I learned from them: 1)Retrieve - e'er employ Cane Carbohydrate - Beet saccharide is a tiny scrap different and doesn't harden the same mode. 2) We put i/ii" of confectioner's sugar onto luncheon trays, fabricated troughs with a dowel, connected the troughs in a continuous line, and poured the candy in an "Due south" in the troughs. When absurd enough to handle, cutting and toss in more confectioners sugar.
12/12/2002
This recipe was exactly what I was looking for! I utilize a diversity of processed oils/flavorings for an array of flavors and colors. Since I constitute this recipe, this WILL exist a new Christmas tradition!
12/18/2005
This is an Easy & First-class recipe! Every bit a first-timer at making hard processed, I burnt the kickoff batch. My 2nd batch came out perfect and was alot of fun to make. Knowing that I would probably mess it upwardly- I halved the recipe. This may exist a good tip for other first-timers equally you need to work very apace!
12/xvi/2005
Gustation wise this is the best! I made processed for the showtime fourth dimension this evening....I only came into 1 trouble...All thw pulverisation sugar stuck to the processed and is really white on about of it! Is this normal? Just other than that my house smell's GREAT and the CANDY IS GREAT! OPINONS PLEASE ON WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE POWDERED Saccharide....Vicki
12/thirteen/2008
ME & MY MOM Make THIS CANDY EVERY Twelvemonth MY SON GOES NUTS NOW IF I DONT MAKE Information technology FOR HIM EVERY YEAR Even so THERE ARE TO THINGS DIFFERENT We DO #one WE Pour OURS EITHER ON A MARBLE Slice OR IN Similar A Apartment COOKIE SHEET AND Bosom IT Up West/A HAMMER AFTER HARDENING (WE MAKE DOUBLE &TRIPLE BATCHES OF ABOUT 15-xx DIFFERNT FLAVORINGS EVERY Yr AND WE Merely Friction match THE FOOD COLORING TO WHICHEVER FLAVOR Nosotros MAKE ONLY WHEN It COMES TO FLAVORING Information technology (EXCEPT FOR THE STONG FLAVORS Similar CLOVES,CINNOMON,PEPPERMINT)YOU NEED TO USE 2 OF THE TINY BOTTLES OF FLAVORING PER RECIPE TO REALLY MAKE Information technology GOOD--HOWEVER Brand STRONGER FLAVORS Terminal CUZ U'LL DEFINITLY BE OPENING DOORS AND OR WINDOWS AND RUNNIN FOR THE HILLS IT'S SO STONG(LEARNED FROM Experience .....TRUST ME!!!)
07/06/2008
Wonderful recipe! I color some green and some red at Xmas. Information technology is a greatly appreciated Xmas souvenir.
01/01/2011
This recipe was so piece of cake to follow. I was very nervous about candy making because I was told it was very touchy...but information technology wasn't bad at all! Simply it did take FOREVER to get the processed upward to 220 degrees, and then I pulled up a chair and "watched a pot eddy". I couldn't effigy out how to cut the candy while it was still hot. Simply where I come from, people cascade the candy into a cookie canvass and smash it with a hammer, and then no 1 noticed. Be careful, because betwixt 250 and 300 degrees, the sugar heats upward very quickly. Also I had another recipe from the flavoring insert, and it said to put the coloring in at 250 degrees, and Not with the flavoring. Other than that, no alterations were made to this recipe. Thanks for sharing!
12/07/2010
Fantabulous & easy recipe. Cutting with a pizza cutter is the best - no treatment hot candy. I've added this to our Christmas traditions!
12/24/2010
Made these canides the other day and they turned out wonderful! Only changes I made was the excerpt. Instead of using extract I used one dram of LorAnne flavored oil. I made cinnamon, butterscotch, and watermellon. The watermellon was less than pleasing because it turned out also sweet and tasted to much like artificial flavoring. I recommend to anyone that if you do make watermellon to add LorAnn tart & sour enhancer. Tastes very similar to jolly ranchers when the enhancer is added. Great recipe thank you for sharing!
12/16/2009
Great recipe! My first time making this, I didn't accept any flavoring oils, so I used 1 tsp. mint excerpt. It came out very practiced, without the in-your-face mintiness that yous sometimes get with the store-bought stuff. The second time, I used 1 tsp rootbeer oil (double what the recipe chosen for), and information technology turned out a little banal for my taste. Next time I do rootbeer, I volition double the amount to 2 tsps. I made other changes to the recipe to fit with the equipment that I accept on hand in my kitchen... I used spray oil on a sheet of wax paper laid on a cookie sheet, and have had no bug with sticking (the paper peels right off). Instead of cut the candy using kitchen shears, i prefer the rustic, jagged pieces left over after nifty the solidified canvass of candy with a edgeless terminate of a knife. Lastly, instead of a processed thermometer, I used a binder prune to concord the probe end of an oven-safety probe thermometer in the saucepan. I was able to set the alarm to go off at 285 F, giving me plenty of time to prep the cookie canvas before the candy hit 300 degrees F. Don't be agape to improvise! :)
01/03/2005
Excellent recipe and like shooting fish in a barrel to make! I volition keep this one for time to come utilize.
09/25/2011
Groovy hard candy recipe. I take also placed Popsicle sticks on a cookie sail lined with foil and sprayed and then poured the candy mixture into circles over the stop of each stick. Individual suckers work well for children.
12/xix/2006
This was fun to try, but didn't turn out not bad for us. Powdered sugar ended up blanket the candy and making information technology whitish, and our thermometer was off making it hard. Check your thermometer before starting and see at what temp it shows humid and then arrange recipe.
12/20/2009
This came out swell, just made it today. I used peppermint and raspberry flavoring (greenish and red for Christmas), and I waited for information technology to harden and used a meat mallet to break it upwardly into pieces. I lined the pans with foil and cooking spray so no mess to make clean upward and no sticking
02/19/2011
excellent
12/21/2012
I never knew I could make hard candy. I have tried several times in the past and had nothing merely a stack of pots that needed de-sugaring. I plant this recipe and decided to try one more time. It looks and tastes like I have been making candy for years. I used ane dram of Cinnamon oil and red food coloring. Information technology looks and tastes just like the old Jolly Rancher cinnamon sticks. Call back those? A bonus is the cinnamon oil makes your house smell awesome, just don't stand over it when you pour it in.... lesson learned.
12/18/2006
My mom and I made this and this is the recipe she used. I was then happy to find it. She used the powdered sugar the first year, but then we used the countertop covered with well buttered tin foil. She snipped it autonomously with pair of scissors and I do the same.
10/27/2010
I haven't fabricated this recipe since i was little. I but made information technology today and My Family unit really loves it!
06/12/2012
It took me a few tries to get this ane right, but I don't take a candy thermometer, so I was guessing the temperature (and undercooked a few times). If you don't accept a candy thermometer, yous tin can dip a fork into the processed mixture, so dip the fork into absurd water. If the processed hardens on the tines, then it'south the right temperature. I also had a dilemma of flavoring oils vs. flavour extract. I learned that, if you can, oils are better (stronger flavor that holds up to boiling meliorate), simply you lot CAN use extract, simply it takes about 4x as much. As well, another reviewer suggested using a pizza cutter to cutting these: Definitely exercise that! Then much ameliorate than trying to work apace with scissors and hot sugar!
12/30/2010
I have been looking for a hard processed recipe for quite a while like I had when I was growing up. Ii accept never made it before and I was surprised at how piece of cake information technology was! My first batch turned out perfectly! I do think information technology needs a trivial more of the excerpt but that is a personal choice. Thank you and so much for such a piece of cake recipe!
eleven/27/2007
I use a recipe simply like this one every year.I pour my candy on a butted block pan and use a pizza cutter to make long strips in it as information technology cools.So when strips cool I go back in the kitchen and elevator them out of pan and brake each row.using my hands or the heavy finish of a butter knife.
12/04/2010
I LOVE this recipe... I don't similar the candy personally, merely my family LOVES it.
12/18/2011
Perfect. I used cinnamon oil & my candy is bang-up. Didn'tsee the bespeak of confectioners' sugar.
03/29/2013
I used to brand this when I was a child and sell it on the school bus. Lost the recipe years ago and was very thrilled to find it here once more. I made this for Christmas, Red-Cinnamon and Light-green-Peppermint and gave them out for gifts. The only thing I did differently was I poured them out on a cookie sheet and cutting into squares just before hardening and didn't use as much powdered saccharide. Cheers for sharing this! :)
02/12/2010
THIS IS PRETTY AND Information technology TASTE Proficient. I DID Employ A WHOLE CUP OF CORN SYRUP.
01/18/2009
Very easy to make, and tasted peachy. I would take added more than peppermint, though.
11/04/2012
This Recipe worked really skilful but information technology didn't give any sort of fourth dimension frame on how long it took to cool. Information technology didn't take long to boil though. Overall this recipe worked great! I fabricated Cinnamon, Raspberry and Lemon. On Cinnamon and other Stiff flavors I recommend that y'all only use 1/4 of a teaspoon instead of half. And for the less stiff flavors similar the Lemon and the Raspberry you lot should use 2 teaspoons for full flavor and also add together some sour flavor enhancer to make the candy sour. And instead of cutting information technology with shears i simply let it harden and vanquish it with a meat mallet.
07/17/2006
good, but did not snip apart as directed
01/10/2003
This recipe turned out first-class. So very easy to make.
09/28/2009
Wow!!! That is all I tin say! I've never made candy before, and I was actually stressing because I wanted to make a altogether cake for my son. The thought I had was for something with a window, but I couldn't discover an piece of cake recipe. I alive in a high altitude surface area, and saw a comment about not letting it get to the hard-crack stage. I couldn't detect information technology again and and then I just went with the soft-crack stage and it turned out wonderful! My kids are loving it, and it made some smashing windows (I didn't add color). I volition be making this once more!
xi/21/2011
again recipe from when I too was young. Skilful advice is to embrace your hand with butter which will aid while cut the strips into pieces. We usaully used a minor bowl and put butter in it and would just grab a small-scale amount and cover palms and then went to work on cutting pieces. This was a great matter to do as a family.
12/xi/2011
Cooks right, but needs one-half a canteen of extract to get anywhere, might need an entire canteen to taste right.
12/03/2013
Then much easier than I thought it would exist to make! We've already made three flavors today and loved every i!
07/27/2003
I love the sense of taste and how easy it is to make!!!!!
12/22/2016
Did not take my grandmothers erstwhile recipe so i thought i would try this recipe. Glad I did, This recipe is perfect> Although i don't similar to review a recipe with our following the exact directions, I did use a bottle of Flavored oil (1 Dram) instead of flavoring extract. 1 Bottle is the perfect amount if yous decide to employ the oil. Also, I use less powdered sugar only because I like the bright colors for the candy. For Christmas I besides used green and reddish sprinkles and the minor decorating balls right after I poured the processed into the cookie sheet. Information technology does not cook, just actually settles into the candy to give information technology a unique wait. See the pics posted. I did a batch of Spearmint with no color. After information technology went in the pan, I put some drops of blood-red and dark-green food coloring and swirled with a toothpick. Lots of compliments. Cheers once again for posting.
12/06/2012
I poured it onto cookie canvass that was covered lightly with powdered saccharide. when it got hard I took a kitchen hammer and bankrupt it upward. no sticking and no greasy candy.
12/25/2014
Later on having an epic failure with anoth recipe, I decided to endeavor this one. HUGE success...until I received an emergency phone call in the eye of the setting process. Thankfully, your instructions on how to soften the candy and then it could exist worked, worked. Thank you! I had to hide the candy from my husband considering he couldn't stop eating information technology! His only comment was that it needed more of the flavoring. Next time, I am going to increase the peppermint by half and see if that satisfies him. :)
11/27/2012
I have never made hard candy before and was a little nervous. I did as one of the reviews I read said to practise....add one Tbsp of excerpt (reddish), and I concluded up calculation four drops of coloring. I buttered the pan before starting to avoid any sugar crystalizing and used the Reynolds wrap no stick version and nothing stuck! I did use pizza cutter, nice recommendation. The season was withal very light even with the increase to 1 Tbsp but it may vary from brands. I enjoyed making this recipe and await forward to making it again with many other flavors to give as gifts for Christmas. Thanks for sharing!
12/24/2016
Made 1 batch and not enough flavor with extract. Fabricated a second batch and doubled the peppermint extract. So made some other batch with cinnamon oil. Everyone loved it! Brought them back to child hood! Pretty crawly! Will be making it again
12/10/2015
Starting using this recipe 3 years ago, it has quickly go a Christmas tradition! I accept made many dissimilar flavours too !
03/06/2019
This is a really good recipe. Is tastes great and my simply trouble was the color, because I had limited dyes. Y'all will definitely need a thermometer for it, though, because information technology takes a while to eddy, and you lot won't really be able to know when it's at 300 F. It tasted excellent
12/30/2015
The flavor is great, fifty-fifty without the oil. If you use peppermint extract information technology make a soft sweetness candy. I did agree with Leslie Marie that you should interruption the candy. Five Stars!!!!!
12/13/2012
I have made 7 batches of this for Christmas this yr. I tried Peppermint, Root beer, Cinnamon and raspberry. I put 1 tablespoon in each and they are perfect. I found that the 1/two teaspoon chosen for was not enough. I take already shared with friends and family and they loved it. My married man said information technology is the best peppermint candy he has had and he is not a fan of peppermint. My favorite is by far the root beer. Thank you for the recipe as it is piece of cake to make.
03/24/2020
Tasted just like grandma's did
08/06/2015
1st time with difficult tack candy~ ACED It!! Thanks for the recipe!
12/20/2018
Easy to make but I approximate I need either a different flavor or different amount. Information technology was pretty flavorless.
11/28/2013
Very unproblematic and piece of cake to brand! My husband and begetter in constabulary accept asked me to make multiple flavours:)
11/fourteen/2013
Very easy recipe with very proficient results. I followed the recipe exactly ,except for using strawberry excerpt instead of mint. Everybody who's tasted this has loved it.
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