This sounds so delicious! Unfortunately I can’t eat taffy any more due to problems with my jaw, but if I could, boy-o!
Molasses Taffy
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
scant cup molasses
1/2 cup water
When it comes to a boil, add 1/4 tsp cream of tartar or 1 tbsp vinegar. After it has boiled a while, add a piece of butter a little larger than a walnut. Test with water at room temp. Cook to a hard wax. Just before taking from stove, add 1/4 tsp soda. Vanilla after it cools.
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You know who loves taffy?? Dad.
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This recipe does not say anything about how to finish after it comes to a boil. As I recall it needs to be poured onto a marble (or something) slab, then stirred around for a while and then pulled. Really pulled! We kids would each get a hunk and pull and stretch until it had a right consistency. Have you ever seen the taffy put on electronic arms – usually through a window at a candy store – and it pulls and stretches the mass until it is the “right” consistency. I will check Fanny Farmer to see what she says.
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I pulled taffy only one time when I was about five years old..it was hard work..but I will never forget tugging for dear life..it was in a long strand..it tasted wonderful:)
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Well, Dad won’t be getting any taffy after reading the rest of the instructions, ha ha.
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