Today I planned on making applesauce and apple jelly with the peels and cores but accidentally made wonderful hard candy. The applesauce came out perfect and when I was making the jelly it never seemed to reach the jelly stage. I stirred forever and just when I thought it was reaching the jelly stage the phone rang and the temp shot up straight to hard crack candy stage. I couldn't bare to waste the "jelly" so I grabbed a small bottle of cherry candy flavoring (leftover from something else) and tossed it in and poured the stuff out on wax paper. My family loves it! I am not sure if I can repeat it or not but here is the recipe
Apple Core Hard Candy
4 cups apple juice (made from apple peels and cores boiled with water) 3 cups sugar 1 dram candy flavoring
Stir the apple juice and sugar continously until it reaches the hard crack candy stage on a candy thermometer. Add flavoring and pour onto wax paper. let cool and break into pieces. If the candy is sticky dust lightly with powdered sugar.
Apple Sauce and hard candy
Posted - Oct 08 2009 : 9:24:05 PM
