Christmas Hard Tack Candy Recipe

Delicious and flavorful it was our favorite treat at christmas time.

Christmas hard tack candy recipe. Remove from the heat. Heat over medium and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Cook on medium high heat until candy thermometer reads 300 hard crack stage stirring occasionally.

It was fun as a kid to pretend that each tiny morsel was a precious jewel in a treasure box. Immediately pour onto an oiled baking sheet. In a large heavy saucepan combine sugar corn syrup and water.

Then snip the strips into pieces. Stir mixture with a wooden spoon or silicone spatula until sugar melts and becomes smooth. Set one pan of candy over a sauce pan containing hot water unless you have a helper to help cut the candy.

Looking forward to making it. Attach candy thermometer on side of pot careful not to touch bottom of pan. Stir in oil and food coloring keeping face away from mixture as the scent of the oil is very strong.

As soon as the other pan of candy is cool enough to handle cut it with scissors into 1 inch strips. How to make hard tack candies in a heavy bottomed saucepan or pot combine 3 3 4 cups granulated sugar with 1 1 2 cups light corn syrup and 1 cup of water. L saw this recipe and will be using it to make him some for christmas as well as extra for the household.

Hard tack candy a christmas tradition last year for the first time in nearly 20 years i remembered this awesome treat and decided to make some of my own. Thank you for sharing this recipe. October 15 2019 9 29 am.