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Chocolate Taffy

A chewy candy made by boiling a sugar and glucose syrup with chocolate and then pulling it.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,404 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Taffy

Ingredients

Directions

Make the taffy base

  1. In a large pot, combine water, glucose, and sugar.

  2. Boil the mixture to 265°F in summer or 260°F in winter.

  3. Once boiling, add the grated chocolate and stir constantly to prevent burning.

Pour and pull

  1. When the mixture is ready, pour it onto a slab.

  2. Sprinkle some chocolate on top before folding the ends toward the center.

  3. Pull the taffy using a hook and finish as directed in the vanilla recipe.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Glucose
Keeps the sugar from crystallising, giving the taffy a smooth, chewy texture.
Sugar
Provides sweetness and forms the structure of the cooked candy base.
Chocolate
Adds flavour and colour to the taffy.

The step that matters

Boiling to the target temperature. The final temperature sets the water content and therefore the firmness of the taffy. Going too low leaves it soft and sticky, while going too high makes it hard and brittle.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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