Molasses Candy
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup vinegar
- 1 quart molasses
- 2 ounces butter
- 1 tsp baking soda
- Flavoring
Dissolve the sugar in vinegar. Mix with the molasses. Boil, stirring often, until it hardens when dropped from a spoon into cold water. Slowly stir in the butter and baking soda, the latter dissolved in hot water. Flavor to taste. Give a hard, final stir and pour into buttered dishes. As it cools, cut into squares for taffy or, while soft enough to handle, pull until white into sticks, using buttered finger tips for this purpose.
Submitted by Sep 13, 2009
15 min 30 min 45 min
15 min 30 min 45 min