| 1 | Have color/flavor/citric acid ready when finished cooking! *more or less, some flavors are stronger than others. |
| 2 | **put citric acid in fruit-flavored candies for tartness. |
| 3 | Test your thermometer every day! to test: place it in cold water & bring to boil. |
| 4 | If water boils at- say 210 instead of 212, reduce cooking time 2 degrees. |
| 5 | ***i use a taylor thermometer. |
| 6 | Wilton sells them now. |
| 7 | Spray *pam in molds & on surface. |
| 8 | Not too much & only once per session. |
| 9 | Use a thin pan, not heavy! candy must set a few minutes in the pan & the temp will rise, burning the candy in a thick pan. |
| 10 | Bring mixture to boil. |
| 11 | Put lid on for 3 minutes , add thermometer & don"t stir. |
| 12 | When therm. |
| 13 | Reaches 285-290d. |
| 14 | Remove pot from stove.wait for temp. |
| 15 | To lower below 260^ before adding color/flavor/citric acid. |
| 16 | cover pan after adding citric acid so it won"t fade the taste. |
| 17 | I add about 2 ts citric acid. |
| 18 | Don"t stir! use the tiny viles of lorann oils. |
| 19 | Avail. |
| 20 | In cake supply shop or drug store. |
| 21 | I pour the cooked candy into a guttman candy funnel thats the quickest way to get it in molds befor it cools & hardens. |
| 22 | *of course, spray funnel! i pour some into molds & the rest onto my marble slab. |
| 23 | The part on the slab: i roll it into a long cylinder & cut into "pillows" w/scissors. |
| 24 | Dust finished candies with powdered sugar so they won"t "melt" together. |
| 25 | There is one very nice sucker mold. |
| 26 | It is a white ring w/ a slit for the stick. |
| 27 | all you do is spray mold, add stick, fill w/candy, cool & remove easily comes in 2-3 sizes, round or heart-shaped. |
| 28 | I beleive it is guttman brand & available here at sugarcraft. |
| 29 | About 2 dz in a pack. |
| 30 | This is my kids favorite christmas candy. |
| 31 | You will want to make several flavors. |
| 32 | Experiment on how-much flavor. |
| 33 | All vary. |
| 34 | *don"t add too much on the mints. |
| 35 | Takes more on the cherry/strawberry/lemon/orange, etc. |
| 36 | There are at least 50 oil flavors available to choose from! |
