Old Fashioned Hard Candy Recipe

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Old Fashioned Hard Candy
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Ingredients
6
Count
Nutrition
1777
Calories
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Ingredients:

  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 tsp peppermint extract
  • 1 drop red food coloring (optional)
  • 1/8 cup confectioners' sugar

Directions:

  1. In a heavy 2 quart saucepan, combine the sugar, water and corn syrup. Cook, stirring constantly until the sugar is dissolved; then cook without stirring, lowering the heat and cooking more slowly during the last few minutes, to the hard crack stage (300 degrees F), If sugar crystals form on sides of pan, wipe them off with a damp brush.
  2. Remove from heat, add oil flavoring and enough food coloring to color; stir only to mix. Pour into 2 well buttered 9 inch pans. Set one pan of candy over a sauce pan containing hot water (unless you have a helper to help cut the candy). As soon as the other pan of candy is cool enough to handle, cut it with scissors into 1-inch strips. Then snip the strips into pieces. Work fast. Drop the pieces onto a buttered baking sheet. If the candy cools too quickly, set it on a saucepan over hot water to soften it, but if it gets sticky, return at once to the work counter.
  3. Toss in a small amount of powdered sugar to keep from sticking together. Repeat with the second pan of candy.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1777.02 Kcal (7440 kJ)
Calories from fat 0 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0g 0%
Sodium 168.41mg 7%
Potassium 7.97mg 0%
Total Carbs 467.69g 156%
Sugars 462.27g 1849%
Calcium 59.3mg 6%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 232.74 Kcal (974 kJ)
Calories from fat 0 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0g 0%
Sodium 22.06mg 7%
Potassium 1.04mg 0%
Total Carbs 61.25g 156%
Sugars 60.55g 1849%
Calcium 7.8mg 6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 35.5
    Points
  • 51
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • fat free,
  • saturated fat free,
  • very low sodium,
  • cholesterol free

Bad Points

  • High in Sugar

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