Taffy Apples - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. sugar
1/2 c. light corn syrup
3/4 c. water
few drops oil of clove
red food coloring

Preparation

Wash and dry 10 eating apples; insert a wooden skewer in blossom end of apple.
Combine sugar, corn syrup and water in top of double boiler; cook over direct heat, stirring, until sugar dissolves.
Add oil of cloves and little red food coloring. Continue cooking without stirring until a drop of mixture tested in cold water forms a hard piece that cracks easily (290\u00b0 on candy thermometer).
Set pan over boiling water.
Dip each apple into syrup quickly.
Remove and whirl apple until syrup covers.