{"id":19057,"date":"2020-03-20T11:33:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=19057"},"modified":"2020-03-20T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T18:39:15","slug":"taffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/taffy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taffy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>1\/2 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>2\/3 C flavoring (eg) cocoa powder<\/li>\n<li>2 C granulated sugar<br \/>\n1.&nbsp; MIX ABOVE<br \/>\n2.&nbsp; Then mix with<\/li>\n<li>1 C corn syrup (Karo)<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 C + 1 TBL water (5 TBL)<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp white vinegar<br \/>\n3.&nbsp; COOK OVER MEDIUM HEAT TILL BOILING<br \/>\n4.&nbsp; Then drop heat to low<br \/>\n5.&nbsp; Heat to 260\u00ba which is Hardball stage<\/li>\n<li>At 260-265\u00ba add 5 tsp salted butter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"6\">STIR UNTIL BUTTER IS MELTED<\/li>\n<li>Then spread on a silicone mat and let cool 10-15 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Put on rubber gloves and coat them with Crisco<\/li>\n<li>Fold in thirds both ways and knead like bread dough<\/li>\n<li>Pull and fold, pull and fold, pull and fold about ten times<\/li>\n<li>Eventually, pull, twist and fold in the air without kneading<\/li>\n<li>Stretch out and fold in half, stretch and fold, stretch and fold<\/li>\n<li>Eventually, it will start to look stringy<\/li>\n<li>Stretch and cut with scissors<\/li>\n<li>Roll into a thin snake and cut into pieces<\/li>\n<li>If it hardens, microwave for 5 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Wrap in waxed paper<\/li>\n<li>Keeps several weeks<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/2 tsp salt 2\/3 C flavoring (eg) cocoa powder 2 C granulated sugar 1.&nbsp; MIX ABOVE 2.&nbsp; Then mix with 1 C corn syrup (Karo) 1\/4 C + 1 TBL water (5 TBL) 1 tsp white vinegar 3.&nbsp; COOK OVER MEDIUM HEAT TILL BOILING 4.&nbsp; Then drop heat to low 5.&nbsp; Heat to 260\u00ba which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/taffy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taffy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19060,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057\/revisions\/19060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}