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Christmas Candy | Family Tradition Recipe

by on November 18, 2023November 19, 2023
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Christmas Candy | Family Tradition Recipe

Christmas Candy

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Time:
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Medium

Ingredients

  • 2 C sugar
  • 1 C water
  • 2/3 C light Karo syrup
  • powdered sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon oil flavoring (for baking/candy) (anise = blue; lemon=yellow; cinnamon= red; clove = orange; sassafras = blue or black
  • food coloring

Directions

  1. In medium pan, cook sugar, water, taro to “hard crack” stage (300 degrees)
  2. Remove from heat and add food coloring and 1/teaspoon oil flavoring.
  3. Pour onto buttered platter.
  4. Cut with scissors, beginning at edges as it cools, slightly
  5. Put pieces into bowl of powdered sugar. When cool and coated, put into colander and shake off extra sugar.
  6. TIP: Candy hardens quickly. Best with two people cutting quickly. If candy gets too hard, it can be broken when hard.

This Christmas Candy was a tradition at the holidays when I was growing up. My sister and I made this ourselves for the first time in 50 years! We thought of my mom the whole time! The whole house smelled lovely. The lemon flavor did not have the lemony flavor we hoped, but the cinnamon and peppermint are tasty! Careful with the heat of the syrup! It burns!

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