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Ribbon
Candy
Ingredients
- 3 cups
sugar
- 1 cup
light corn syrup
- 1/4 cup
water
- 6 to 8
drops peppermint oil or cinnamon oil
- 1/4
teaspoon red paste food coloring
- 1/4
teaspoon green paste food coloring
- 2 pairs
white cotton work gloves
Method
Butter
3 shallow baking pans; set aside. Butter sides of 3 quart
saucepan. In saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup and water.
Cook over medium high heat to
boiling, stirring constantly with wooden spoon to dissolve sugar, about 5
minutes. Avoid splashing mixture on side of pan. Cook over
medium heat, stirring occasionally, until thermometer registers 280° F,
soft crack stage, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in
peppermint or cinnamon oil. Pour about 2/3 of the mixture into a
buttered pan.
Pour half of the remaining candy
into a warm small saucepan.
Add red coloring to this portion
and pour into another buttered pan.
Add green coloring to the
remaining portion in the 3 quart saucepan. Pour in remaining buttered
pan. Let candy cool slightly, 3 to 5 minutes for larger, uncolored
portion, 1 to 2 minutes for smaller, red and green portions. As edges
cool, lift and fold edges to center with metal spatula. (If candy is too
warm, it will stick to spatula.)
When red and green candy can be
rolled into balls with spatula, they are ready for shaping. With
gloved hands, pull and twist red candy until light in color, 2 to 3
minutes. Shape into 6 inch rope.
Place in 1 of the buttered pans
and keep warm in 200° F oven.
Repeat with green
portion. At the same time, have the 2nd person pull uncolored portion
until white. Shape into a 6 inch rope. Place white rope in
center of one of the buttered baking sheets; place one colored rope on
each side of white rope. Press all three ropes together to form a
single flat log. Working quickly, have one person stretch one end of
striped candy log, lengthwise, working to other end until ribbon narrows
to about one inch wide. Have second person immediately follow first
person and turn ribbon onto 1 edge and fold accordion style to make ribbon
shape; break off in 6 inch lengths. If candy hardens to much, return
to oven 3 to 5 minutes to soften.
Note:
It takes
2 people to pull and shape this candy, it hardens very fast.
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