After Dinner Mints - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. sugar
2/3 c. boiling water
1/4 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. vinegar

Preparation

Mix all ingredients in saucepan. Boil, without stirring, to 265\u00b0 (very firm ball stage). Pour on oiled slab or in shallow pan. Cool; lift (avoiding a stirring motion). Pull keeping the grain all one way. During pulling, sprinkle with a few drops of flavoring using vanilla, orange extract, lemon, oil of peppermint, wintergreen, clove or cinnamon. Add food coloring at same time if you like. When candy is too stiff to pull, stretch in longest rope possible (1/2 inch thick); cut in small pieces with scissors. Coat with powdered sugar. Store in covered glass jar and keep in warm place several days before serving.