Old Fashion 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 extract

Preparation

Combine first 5 ingredients in a small Dutch oven.
Cook, without stirring, over medium heat just until mixture reaches soft crack stage (270\u00b0).
Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
Pour candy onto a well buttered 5 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.)