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Salt water taffy
Recipe Information
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Name: |
Salt water taffy |
Submitter: |
ladygorb |
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Desserts & Baked Goods |
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Submitted: |
2 Dec 2005 |
Updated: |
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252 |
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Description: U.S. State of New Jersey - the first taffy made and sold in Atlantic City called 'Salt Water Taffy' was more gimmick than anything else. One legend has it that a taffy vendor named David Bradley jokingly referred to the candy as "salt water taffy" after sea water soaked his supply of the candy in an 1883 summer storm. |
Recipe Ingredients
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- • 2 cups sugar
- • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- • 1 cup light corn syrup
- • 2 teaspoons glycerin (optional)
- • 3/4 cup water
- • 2 tablespoons butter
- • 1 teaspoon salt
- • 1/4 to 1 teaspoon flavoring (such as vanilla, lemon, maple, or mint)
- • 3 drops food coloring (optional)
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- • a large (3- to 4-quart) saucepan
- • a wooden spoon
- • a candy thermometer
- • a pastry brush
- • waxed paper or plastic wrap
- • a marble slab or cookie sheet
- • greased scissors or butter knife
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Recipe Instructions
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Saltwater taffy is a candy and an upper-body workout all in one. To give it its light but chewy texture, you’ll be pulling it, and pulling it, and pulling it for up to 15 minutes. Still want to make it? Here’s a recipe! More about taffy.
Makes about 50 1-inch pieces
Don’t try to make taffy on a rainy or humid day. Mix together sugar and cornstarch in the saucepan. Use a wooden spoon to stir in the corn syrup, glycerin, water, butter, and salt.
Place the saucepan over medium heat and stir until the sugar dissolves.
Continue stirring until mixture begins to boil, then let cook, undisturbed, until it reaches about 270° F or the soft-crack stage.
Wash down the sides of the pan with a pastry brush dipped in warm water while the syrup cooks.
Remove the saucepan from the heat and add food coloring and flavoring.
Stir gently, then pour onto a greased marble slab or into a shallow greased cookie sheet to cool.
When the taffy is cool enough to handle, grease your hands with oil or butter and pull the taffy until it's light in color and has a satiny gloss.
You can have a friend help with this step, which should take about 10 minutes.
Roll the pulled taffy into a long rope, about 1/2 inch in diameter, and cut it with greased scissors or a butter knife into 1-inch-long pieces.
Let the pieces sit for about half an hour before wrapping them in wax paper or plastic wrap and twisting the ends of the wrapper.
What Else Can I Try? • Try leaving out the corn syrup and see what happens! When we tried this, we ended up with a crystallized candy with a melt-in-your-mouth texture very similar to after-dinner mints.
• Try adding 1/8 teaspoon of baking soda before pouring out the syrup. This will create many tiny bubbles that should result in a lighter, chewier texture.
• Try twisting together taffy ropes of different colors or flavors for fun new combinations.
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