Vintage Christmas Hard Candy Recipes

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OLD FASHIONED HARD CANDY



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Home made hard candy is a great gift idea! Use different colors and flavorings to match the season.

Provided by YVETTE MOORE

Categories     Desserts     Candy Recipes

Time 45m

Yield 16

Number Of Ingredients 6

½ cup confectioners' sugar for dusting
2 cups white sugar
1 cup water
⅔ cup light corn syrup
1 teaspoon peppermint oil, or other flavored oil
1 teaspoon any color food coloring

Steps:

  • Generously coat a cookie sheet with confectioners' sugar, and set aside.
  • In a heavy bottomed saucepan, stir together the white sugar, water and corn syrup until sugar has dissolved. Bring to a boil over medium-high and cook to a temperature of 300 to 310 degrees F (149 to 154 degrees C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard, brittle threads. Remove from heat, and stir in the flavored oil and food coloring.
  • Immediately pour the sugar mixture onto the prepared cookie sheet in a thin stream (this helps it cool). When the candy is cool enough for the outer edge to hold its shape, cut into bite size pieces with scissors. Let cool completely, then store in an airtight container.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 150.1 calories, Carbohydrate 39.2 g, Sodium 8.5 mg, Sugar 32.3 g

OLD-FASHIONED HOMEMADE HARD CANDY



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This is an old recipe from my childhood. Many people have memories of cutting this candy with their mother's and grandmothers. I have passed it on and am now posting here for all to share in this classic Christmas tradition!

Provided by Tami L. Smith

Categories     Desserts     Candy Recipes

Yield 20

Number Of Ingredients 6

2 cups white sugar
1 cup water
¾ cup light corn syrup
½ teaspoon peppermint extract
1 drop red food coloring
⅛ cup confectioners' sugar

Steps:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Toss in a small amount of powdered sugar to keep from sticking together. Repeat with the second pan of candy.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 115.5 calories, Carbohydrate 30.2 g, Sodium 8 mg, Sugar 24 g

HARD TACK CANDY



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Remember this vintage candy recipe from your childhood? Hard Tack Candy is easier than you think! Make for any holiday.

Provided by Julie Clark

Categories     Dessert

Number Of Ingredients 6

1.75 pounds granulated sugar ((about 3 1/2 cups))
1 cup water
1 cup corn syrup
food coloring
.125 ounces LorAnn Flavoring Oil
1/2 cup powdered sugar

Steps:

  • Line a large baking sheet (at least 12x17") with parchment paper. Set aside.
  • Place the sugar, water and corn syrup in a saucepan and place over medium heat. Mix constantly until the sugar melts and the mixture starts to boil.
  • Continue to cook and stir. The first time you make this, you may want to keep the heat at medium. Once you are comfortable with the process, feel free to turn up the heat. Just continue to mix gently. Be patient!!! Temperature is everything. This recipe will not work if you take it off the heat too soon.
  • Constantly measure the temperature of the boiling sugar mixture and cook until it reaches 280º Fahrenheit. At this point, add in the food coloring. Add a few drops at a time until it reaches the color you'd like.
  • Continue to cook the mixture until it reaches 290º Fahrenheit. Don't rush this process! Make sure it hits at least 290º, but up to 295º is ok.
  • Remove the sugar from the heat and stir in the flavored oil.
  • Immediately pour the hot sugar on the prepared pan. Make sure you don't have a super thick layer or it will be hard to crack apart.
  • Allow the mixture to cool completely (this will take about 30 minutes).
  • Use a meat mallet to crack the candy into pieces.
  • Place the candy pieces into a zippered bag. Add the powdered sugar and shake to coat.
  • Store in an airtight container at room temperature. The candy will keep this way for several months.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 214 kcal, Carbohydrate 56 g, Fat 1 g, Sodium 12 mg, Sugar 56 g, ServingSize 1 serving

CHRISTMAS HARD CANDY



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This is made each year and it is my granddaughter's favorite time. We get together and have several pots going at different intervals so we are going all the time. This past year my husband got involved. We make seven or eight kinds each year. You have to use the oil and not just flavoring. They can be purchased in a candy store or on-line. This candy is delicious. The recipe below is for one batch of one flavor. So, if you want many flavors, you make many batches but you will need at least two people and of course it is more fun with two. Be careful you don't burn your fingers. This candy makes a great gift.

Provided by Mimi in Maine

Categories     Candy

Time 1h10m

Yield 1 batch

Number Of Ingredients 6

2/3 cup white Karo
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
1/2 teaspoon oil flavoring (approximate)
1/2 teaspoon food coloring, of choice (approximate)
3 cups confectioners' sugar

Steps:

  • Put a couple of LIGHTLY oiled and then wiped out, 10" frying pan (metal--not cast iron) in the freezer for 20 minutes or so before starting the candy (one for each batch).
  • Put the confectioners sugar in a bowl and put on the table where you will be working with the candy.
  • Put the Karo syrup, sugar, and water in a large saucepan; bring it to a boil and cook over medium heat till thermometer reaches 300F to 305F (hard crack stage).
  • Immediately take off the stove and add the flavoring and the food coloring.
  • Pour into the cold pans and wait till it starts to set; it will cool around the edges first.
  • When it does, start picking up and snipping with scissors to desired size.
  • Put into the confectioners sugar and leave there, tossing every so often, till you are done.
  • When that particular flavor is done, put the candy in a sifter and sift the confectioners sugar off and put into a clean bowl; save this sugar for the next batch.
  • AMOUNT OF OIL FLAVORING THAT I USE:.
  • cinnamon--scant 1/2 teaspoon (deep red); lemon--full 1/2 teaspoon (yellow); anise--full 1/2 teaspoon (blue); lime--full 1/2 teaspoon (light green); spearmint--exactly 1/2 teaspoon (dark green); orange--full 1/2 teaspoon (medium orange); clove--level 1/4 teaspoon (this flavor is very strong--no color).

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