Hard Sugar Candy

[Triss]

Hard Sugar Candy

3 cups sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1/4 cup water

Mix together in a medium or large saucepan/pot/kettle. Mix will be very thick until warmed. Boil over meduim high heat until hard crack stage (310 degrees farenhiet). Remove from heat, stir in any food coloring you wish to use, 15 to 30 drops, or 1/2 teaspoon. Then mix in the flavor you have chosen, 1/2 to 1 teaspoon is usually enough, depending on your taste.

Pour into either a greased or foil lined cookie sheet with lip. Once hardened, break into chunks and store in a sealed container.

* I either use cinnamon oil, or candy flavorings that are sold in the crafts section at my wal-mart. They come in tiny bottles, usually 2 to a pack. Be careful when mixing them in, and DO NOT inhale the steam.

* I prefer to use a foil lined pan, and then dust the candy with powdered sugar to keep it from sticking to it's self.

[bayou girl]

and, if you want to break it into even sized pieces, when it is poured up and beginning to settle, you can score it with a pizza wheel.  it will break into nice little squares then

[Triss]

Well that would have my life a whole lot easier.  I will have to remember that for next time.  I had shards of it... like glass and it is as sharp as glass as well, sliced my hand good on one piece as I was picking it up.