Saltwater Taffy - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups water
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 teaspoon food coloring
3/4 teaspoon extract, of your choice

Preparation

Combine sugar, corn syrup, salt and water in a 2 quart pan.
Cook over medium high heat, stirring constantly till sugar dissolves.
Heat mixture without stirring, until it reaches a hard boil stage.260* --
Remove from heat mix in remaining ingredients.
Pour into a lightly buttered jelly roll pan.
Cool until just able to handle.
Butter hands -- gather taffy into a ball and pull.
Continue to pull until light in color and hard to pull.
Divide into fourths.
Pull each fourth into a 1/2\" thick rope --
Cut into 1\" pieces using buttered scissors --
Wrap individually in waxed paper -- .