Christmas Hard Candy - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. granulated sugar
2/3 c. Karo syrup (white, red label syrup)
1 c. cold water
1/2 tsp. food coloring
1/2 tsp. oil flavoring
confectioners sugar

Preparation

Combine sugar, syrup and water.
Cook to 300\u00b0on a candy thermometer.
Remove from heat.
Let syrup stop bubbling, then add food
coloring and
flavoring.
Mix
well.
Pour
into
a buttered small frying pan
and
swirl around until candy cools or is \"tacky\".
Then pour candy into a cookie sheet of confectioners sugar.
When cool
enough
to
handle, cut into pieces with buttered knife.
After candy
is cut and cooled, sift out the sugar from candy and store in airtight container.