Recipe#4333
Title: Candy Apples 03
From: dunwoods@dreamscape.com (Linda Carr)Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:41:29 -0500
Message-ID: dunwoods-2410961241290001@se0.dreamscape.com
RED CANDIED APPLES
10 to 12 pointed wooden skewers10 to 12 medium apples
3 cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
2/3 cup water
1 teaspoon lemon juice
15 whole cloves (or 1 teaspoon vanilla)
1 or 2 teaspoons red food coloring
Stick skewers into stem end of apples securely. Combine sugar,
cream of tartar, water lemon juice and cloves in heavy saucepan.
Stir until sugar disolves. Add food color. Without stirring, cook
to 300 degrees on candy termometer (hard crack stage). Remove from
heat. Quickly skim out cloves. (Stir in vanilla if using). Twist
apples in syrup. Set on buttered cookie sheet to harden.
Notes: Use small, deep saucepan. Don't let apples touch each
other when drying. Make them the day they will be used. Use
draft-free part of kitchen.