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     Title: SALT WATER TAFFY
Categories: Candies
     Yield: 24 Servings

     2 c  Sugar
     1 c  Corn syrup
 1 1/2 ts Salt
 1 1/2 c  Water
     2 tb Butter
     7 dr Green food coloring
   1/4 ts Oil of peppermint

 Combine sugar, corn syrup, salt and water in 2 quart saucepan. Cook slowly,
 stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves. Cook to hard ball stage (260 F)
 without stirring. Remove from heat, stir in remaining ingredients. Pour
 into buttered 15x10x1 inch pan. Cool until comfortable to handle. Butter
 hands and gather taffy iunto ball and pull. When candy is light in color
 and gets hard to pull, cut into fourths. Pull each piece into a long strand
 about 1/2 inch thick. With buttered scizzors, quickly snip into bite sized
 pieces. Wrap each piece in waxed paper. 1 1/4 lb.

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