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Pioneer Honey Candy Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups Sugar
2 cups honey
piece of butter the size of a walnut
Directions:
Directions:
Combine and cook slowly until it forms hard string in a glass of COLD water when dripping from a spoon. Turn on a well-buttered cookie sheet. Cool just so you can stretch. Add a little vanilla before stretching. Stretch with tips of fingers, allowing air to get into candy. Have a bread board dusted with powdered sugar to lay it on. Cut with scissors.

To "Stretch" the candy, pick up a blob and hold on both sides of it, and stretch apart. Then bring ends together, and hold in left hand. Pick up the bottom with the right hand and stretch again - putting a twist in it, and put ends together, and repeat until the candy becomes lighter in color with air in it. Lay it out in about a 3/4" strand looped back and forth, and cut into pieces. Can wrap in pieces of wax paper.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Fun to do with your family or your Young Women's group. We did it at a Relief Society Homemaking Meeting when we were allowed to cook at the church. I can still remember the sweet taste of honey as I sucked on it. A fun 24th of July activity!

 

 

 

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