Taffy

2 cups light corn syrup
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 teaspoons butter
flavoring (vanilla, mint, etc.) to taste
food coloring (optional)

Materials:

• An enamel pot
• A candy thermometer (optional)
• A cup 3/4 filled with cold water
• Baking pan that has been liberally buttered
• Rubber spatula
• Extra butter and waxed paper

Use an enamel pot. Put all the ingredients except flavoring into the pot and put it it on the stove to heat. Bring to a boil, but do not stir.

Boil the mixture until a spoonful of the mixture forms a ball when dropped into a cup of cold water...approximately 250 degrees on a candy thermometer. (Be careful! If mixture cooks for too long, it will harden before it cools enough to handle!)

Pour syrup onto a liberally buttered pan. Add flavoring and food coloring as desired, mixing with a spatula. Mix to cool syrup.

After buttering your hands, take a handful of taffy and continue to pull it apart into long strands for almost 5 minutes.  The candy should become opaque and become harder and harder to pull. Work it into a shape. When the taffy holds it shape, it is done. Break off small pieces and wrap them in waxed paper for storage.