LICORICE CARAMELS
I originally found this recipe in the Orlando Sentinel in Dorothy Chapmans food column. She found the recipe in the 1991 Better Homes and Gardens Grand Holiday Cooking. This recipe is well worth the effort.
Provided by Dlorez Haehlen
Categories Candy
Time 2m
Yield 64 pieces
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Line a 9-by-9-by-2-inch baking pan with foil, extending foil over edges of pan.
- Butter foil: set aside.
- Melt butter in heavy 3-quart saucepan over low heat.
- Add sugar, sweetened condensed milk, corn syrup and salt, Mix well.
- Carefully clip candy thermometer to side of pan.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring CONSTANTLY until thermometer registers 244F degrees , firm ball stage.
- Reaching firm ball stage should take 15-20 minutes (be careful, mixture scorches easily).
- Remove from heat.
- Remove candy thermometer from saucepan.
- Add anise and color, stir to mix.
- Quickly pour candy without scraping into prepared pan.
- Cool several hours or until firm.
- Use foil to lift and out of pan onto cutting board.
- Peel off and discard foil.
- With buttered sharp knife, cut immediately into one inch squares.
- Wrap individually in waxed paper or plastic wrap.
- Makes 64 pieces, about 2-3/4 pounds.
- NOTE: mixture must be stirred constantly as tiny crystals that form tend to scorch quickly.
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