Old-Fashioned Taffy - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. water
1/4 c. vinegar
1/8 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. butter or margarine
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Combine first 5 ingredients in a small Dutch oven; cook, without stirring, over medium heat just until mixture reaches crack stage (270\u00b0).
Remove from heat.
Stir in vanilla.
Pour candy onto a well buttered 15 x 10 x 1-inch jelly roll pan or slab of marble.
Let cool to touch; pull candy until light in color and difficult to pull.
(Butter hands if candy is sticky.)
Divide candy in half and pull into a rope, 1-inch in diameter.
Cut taffy into 1-inch pieces; wrap each piece individually in waxed paper. Yield:
about 40 (1-inch) pieces.