Wartime Taffy

Ingredients

• 2 cups corn syrup
• 1 teaspoon water
• 0.25 teaspoon soda
• 2 tablespoons vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Boil the syrup for fifteen minutes, then add the soda.

2. 2

   Cook until a little snaps brittle when dropped in cold water.

3. 3

   Add the vinegar when this stage is reached and pour into oiled pans.

4. 4

   When cool enough to handle, pull until white; make into inch-thick rolls and clip off into neat mouthfuls with oiled scissors, or chill and break into irregular pieces when cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Foods that will win the war (1918) by Charles Houston Goudiss, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WARTIME TAFFY 2 cups corn syrup 1 teaspoon water 4 teaspoon soda . yd tablespoons vinegar Boil the syrup for fifteen minutes, then add the soda. Cook until a little snaps brittle when dropped in cold water. Add the vinegar 70 FOODS THAT WILL WIN THE WAR when this stage is reached and pour into oiled pans. When cool enough to handle, pull until white; make into inch-thick rolls and clip off into neat mouthfuls with oiled scissors, or chill and break into irregular pieces when cold. PHANUT BRITTLE 1 cup corn syrup 1 tablespoon fat 1 cup peanuts Boil syrup and fat until brittle when tested in cold water. Grease a pan, sprinkle the roasted and shelled peanuts in it, making an even distribution, then turn in the syrup. When almost cold mark into squares. Cocoanut, puffed wheat or puffed rice may be used for candy instead of peanuts. RAISIN AND PEANUT LOAF Put equal quantity of seeded raisins and roasted peanuts through the food chopper, using the coarsest blade. Moisten with molasses just enough so that the mixture can be molded into a loaf. Chill, cut and serve as candy. Chopped English walnuts combined with chopped dates or figs make a very delicious loaf sweetmeat. POPCORN BALLS AND FRITTERS 1 cup corn syrup 2 tablespoons vinegar

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