Homemade Taffy

Ingredients:
 
2 1/2 cups white sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup light corn syrup
1 1/3 cups water
2 tablespoons butter (plus lots extra to butter hands)
1 teaspoon salt
1 - .21oz (6g) package unsweetened, fruit-flavored drink mix (like Kool-Aid)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

Butter large jelly roll pan or a cookie sheet with sides.

In a medium saucepan, stir together the sugar and cornstarch. Add corn syrup, water, butter and salt and stir well until butter is melted. Bring to a boil over medium heat and stop stirring. Cook mixture until candy thermometer read 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). This takes some time to get it to 250 degrees. Once it approaches 250 degrees watch very closely because it cooks quickly at the end. Immediately remove from heat. Carefully stir in vanilla and drink mix. Stir well. We should have stirred ours more-- notice some bits of drink mix (dark spots) on our taffy. Pour mixture onto buttered baking pan. Allow to cool enough to handle, about 10 minutes.


Once the taffy has cooled enough to handle, butter hands and begin pulling. (It starts kind of translucent) 
Then pull...and pull...butter hands again...pull...and stretch...pull...more hand buttering...pull...
It will become more opaque and lighten in color depending on the attention span of your workers! This takes about 10-15 minutes of pulling.
Pull into long ropes and cut.
Wrap pieces of taffy in pieces of waxed paper

Teryn came home from mutual one night with a very yummy taffy recipe.  One of the ingredients was very questionable, even the pharmacist said he wouldn't put the glycerin in any kind of food product.  I asked the lady that gave T the recipe and she said she always buys it at the pharmacy.  So off we went on our search again.  Same reaction from every pharmacy we went too.  We went to Michaels and talked to a lady there and she said to use the glycerin in the cake isle.  Holy Cow!  Small bottle for a big price.  We opt out on that recipe and continued the search for another recipe.  Then this recipe came up on a blog I follow.  I'm anxious to try it.