Recipe#4331

Title: Candy Apples

From: dpnorris@netcom.ca (Diane Patricia Norris) 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking 
 Subject: Candy Apples 
 Date: 21 Oct 1996 02:28:48 GMT 
 Message-ID: <54en50$rnb@tor-nn1-hb0.netcom.ca> 

12 med apples skewers or ice cream sticks
 2 cups sugar
 1 2/3 cup light corn syrup
 2/3 cup water
 red food coloring
 Wash apples, remove stems, insert sticks.  Lightly grease cookie
 sheet.
 Mix sugar, corn syrup and water in saucepan. Law heat and stir till
 sugar dissolves. Continue cooking over med heat, stir as little as
 possible to prevent sticking. When reaches 300 degrees, remove from
 heat and add food coloring. Carefully dip apples into hot syrup;
 let excess drip and set on cookie sheet.
 Variation:  Hot Cinnamon Apples: Foloow above. Add 1/2 tsp cinnamon
 oil flavouring after removing from heat. Continue as recipe directs.