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Grandma Kate's Taffy Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2/3 cup water
2 cups sugar
1tbsp butter
2 tbsp Apple cider vinegar
Flavor Oils to taste

Butter for pulling Taffy (about a pound)
Directions:
Directions:
Stir until sugar dissolves over medium heat.
Cook to 310° (medium heat).
Keep cooking until brown bubbles appear.
Drop flavor oils in after heat is off.
Cool on platter working with a metal knife/metal decorating spatula & start pulling by hand.
*Butter your hands well!*

Peppermint was the oil of preference. It must be kitchen grade pure peppermint oil. Do not use extracts.


*****Temperature in the 30s and below and less than 40% humidity.*****
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This is a very special recipe that is certain to give wonderful life long memories. I recall making this recipe with my Grandpa Ward Davidson, Granny Kate's son. The smells that filled the house were amazing with the added bonus of the weather being super cold and dry outside. A rare occasion in Houston, Texas. My father, Johnny Hawkins endured the heat to pull the taffy with my Grandpa. Shelley standing with a platter underneath to catch it if it was dropped and I stood ready with butter so they could keep buttering their hands. Jonathan was inside ready to try the yumminess. The end result was the tastiest brittle, airy candy imaginable. It is unlike anything else you have ever had. Since then there have only been a handful of times that either my siblings, Shelley or Jonathan, or myself have been able to pull Taffy.


Christy Macri

 

 

 

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