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How To Make Old Fashioned Cane Molasses Candy

By Lydia Carney


Molasses is a thick additive that is made by processing beets or grapes into refined sugar. Its precise color and consistency mostly depends on the kind of method used to create it. Molasses is a popular baking ingredient, being utilized to make a number of different types of cookies, cakes, and breads but it is most commonly used in baking molasses candy.

Begin by gathering together the ingredients. To make these candies you'll need sugar, corn syrup, butter, baking soda, cider vinegar, and cane molasses. You will require a metal candy thermometer, cooking spray, wax paper, and a 15 by 10 inch baking pan as well.

Next, coat the fifteen by ten inch pan with a little vegetable oil and mix a 3/4 cup of light corn syrup, one cup of white sugar, and two and a half teaspoons of cider vinegar all together in the sauce pan. Heat the pot over low heat until all of the white sugars dissolve. Insert the thermometer in the pan and turn up the heat. Mixing the ingredients regularly, heat them until they reach a temperature of 245 degrees.

Once the desired temperature has been reached, add in three tablespoons of butter and 3/4 cup of molasses. Cook the mixture until the thermometer reaches two hundred and sixty degrees and then remove it from heat. As it's cooling down, add 1/4 of a teaspoon of baking soda and then mix it up thoroughly.

Pour the contents of the sauce pan into the greased baking pan and let it cool down for a few minutes. Then, use your hands to stretch it out for a few more. Stop when the substance is a light tan color and firm. Be sure to complete this step quickly as the candy will harden in just minutes.

Stretch it into a long tube and then cut it into bite sized pieces. Lastly, you can keep the newly created old fashioned candy in a special dish or cover each individual one in paper to keep them from melting to one another. molasses candy




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