How To Make Hard Tack Candy

Hard tack candy is a sweet holiday treat that is easy to make, and very delicious. Hard tack is a flavored candy, and is made using corn syrup. There are a variety of ways to make this wonderful candy, but I’ve provided one that is most common.

Ingredients:

  • 3 1/2 cups of sugar
  • 1 cup of corn syrup
  • 1 cup of boiling water
  • 1 teaspoon of flavored oil/candy flavor
  • 1 teaspoon of food coloring

Directions:

1. Butter large cookie sheet (with edges) and set aside. Boil water.

2. Mix in sugar and corn syrup.

3. Mix in saucepan until sugar is dissolved.

4. Cook, without stirring until candy thermometer reaches 300 degrees (hard crack).

5. Immediately remove from heat.

6. Add food coloring and oil flavoring.

7. Stir until well mixed.

8. Pour syrup into prepared cookie sheet.

9. Start cutting around edges with candy shears as syrup cools.

10. Drop the candy on wax paper that has been sprinkled with powdered sugar.

11. When candy cools, break into pieces and store in tins.

 

 

Source website for candy: http://www.recipekey.com/therecipes/Hard-Tack-Candy

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