Salt Water Pull 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, of your choice
3/4 tablespoon extract, flavoring of your choice

Preparation

Combin Sugar, Corn syrup, Salt, and Water in a 2 quart pan.
Cook over medium high heat, stirring constantly till suagr dissovles.
Heat mixture without stirring, until it reaches a hard boil stage. about 260*.
Remove from heat, mix in remaining ingredients.
Cover a cookie sheet with tin foil, lightly spray pam on it, and pour the taffy onto the cookie sheet.
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 (1/4).
Pull each fourth (1/4) into a 1/2\" thick rope.
Cut into 1\" pieces using a knife.
Wrape individually in wax paper.