Well I gotta’ tell ya folks. Candy apples are my weakness. Took a long time to come up with a good recipe so thought I would share. Only other tip other than the recipe is when it reaches 300 degrees on the candy thermometer, get to dunking your apples, and make sure you butter your cookie sheet that they will be sitting on. What a great old way to enjoy Halloween and the kids love them.
Makes 4 good size apples.
2 Cups Of Sugar
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup light or regular corn syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon red food colouring, (optional) Better than Food Colouring, Buy Bright Red Apples
- 4 medium apples good size apples
Directions
- Line a cookie sheet with butter really good. In a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine sugar, 3/4 cup water, corn syrup, and food coloring, if using. Bring to a boil over high heat; reduce heat to medium-high. Insert candy thermometer and continue to boil until temperature reaches 300 degrees (hard crack stage) takes about 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, insert a wooden stick into the top of each apple, pushing about halfway through; set aside. When mixture reaches temperature, immediately remove from heat. Working quickly, dip apples in sugar mixture until completely coated and then move to cookie sheet and let cool. Now the best part comes into play. A lot of slurping.
Most folks up here in the north take all our leaves just for granted. Myself I see them as a benefit to my gardens. Come fall when they start to drop, I gather up all I can, which is quite an amount to say the least. I then rake them, carry them and wheel them to my garden and spread them all over the top. Once done I then till them in a wee bit, just so that they don’t blow away with the winter winds. Come spring they will be then tilled in again and other than the looks of nice the black soil, you wouldn’t even know they were there. It’s a great economical way of building your gardens and so easy to do. You got to figure that every year your plants are taking a lot of that soil and using it to keep themselves alive. If you don’t put back in what is used, well you won’t have a garden for very long. The leaves I don’t use in my garden are, cedar, not really a leave, same as pine as I don’t use them either, but for leaves, not to be used, the main one would be black walnut. Actually you don’t even want your garden to be near one. Also oak isn’t the greatest either, but can be used if left off to one side of your garden rotting for a few years before using. So there you go, you still got lots of time to make use of them leaves so why not make some use of them. Talk Soon.
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