Make your own candy

     Ever try to make your own candy?  Well I just did and it is fabulous!  So here's how it's done.
2 cups granulated sugar              
1/2 teaspoon liquid food coloring
2/3 cups light corn syrup              
Powdered sugar (optional)
3/4 cup water
1 dram (1 teaspoon) LorAnn Gourmet Flavoring

In large saucepan, mix together sugar, corn syrup, and water.  Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves.

 

Bring mixture to a boil without stirring.  When syrup temperature reaches 260 degrees, add coloring.  DO NOT STIR IT IN.  Boiling action will incorporate color into syrup.  

Remove from heat at 300 degrees.  After boiling action ceases, add flavoring and stir.  Use caution when adding flavoring to avoid rising steam.

NOTE: I poured my flavoring into my spoon and set it down in to pot.  It still steamed quite a bit.

Pour syrup into lightely oiled candy molds or onto greased cookie sheet and score to mark squares.

I poured mine into this, stuck it in the fridge and when it hardend i broke it into pieces with my meat mallet!  Hey, you gotta use what you got sometimes.  Dust with powered sugar and store in an airtight container.

This kind is grape and it is soooo yummy!

I cannot take credit for this recipe, I got it from the pharmacy in the Shop N Save in Franklin, Pa.  It is by Lorann Gourmet and they sell her flavored oils there.  She has a website it's www.lorannoil.com.

If anyone decides to make this, let us know how it turns out and if you did anything different.