Hard Candy

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Ingredients

  • 3 3/4 cups sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups Karo light corn syrup
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 tsp oil
  • Food coloring
  • Powdered sugar

Preparation

Step 1

1. Sprinkle 18X24" strip of heavy duty alluminum foil with some powdered sugar.

2. Mix sugar, corn syrup, and water in a large heavy saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Boil, without stirring, until temperature reaches 310F or until drops of syrup forms a hard and brittle thread in cold water.

3. Remove from heat. Stir in oil and coloring. Pour onto foil. Cool. Break into pieces. Store in air tight container.