Red Apples On A Stick - cooking recipe

Ingredients

8 medium red apples
8 wooden skewers
3 cups sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup water
1 drop cinnamon oil
1 teaspoon red food coloring

Preparation

Wash and dry apples; remove stems.
Insert skewer in stem end of each apple.
Mix sugar, syrup and water in a saucepan; bring to a boil, stirring until sugar has dissolved.
Then cook (285F on candy thermometer), without stirring, until a small amount of mixture separates in threads that are hard but not brittle when dropped in very cold water.
Remove from heat and add flavouring and colouring, stirring only enough to mix.
Hold each apple by skewer end and quickly swirl in syrup, tilting pan to cover apple completely.
Remove from syrup, allow excess to drop off, then swirl to spread syrup smoothly over apple.
Put on lightly buttered baking sheet to cool.