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Strawberry Taffy

A confection made by coloring and kneading taffy base, then pulling until pink.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Strawberry Taffy

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour the taffy base onto a slab.

  2. Take 1 to 2 pounds from one end of the batch soon after pouring.

  3. Daub ½ teaspoon of red paste food coloring onto the taken portion.

  4. Fold and knead the colored portion until thoroughly mixed.

  5. Add the colored portion back to the main batch.

  6. Pull the taffy until it turns pink.

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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What each ingredient does

Taffy base
Forms the chewy, stretchable body of the candy that gets pulled and aerated.
Red paste food coloring
Provides the pink color, colouring only the portion it is kneaded into.

“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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