I need to know if any one out there has a good recipe for hard rock candy ?

Question

Every year at christmas time when we were kids growing up we helped my aunt make this. She recently passed away and I was not able to get her recipe before she died. I need to know what to put in it and how to make it. I would like to start this tradition with my grandkids. I think they would enjoy help me make some. Hope you can help me and thank you. Some people called it stained glass candy. Once again thank you.

Answer 1

Hope you have a candy thermometer, watch that 300
Hard Tack Candy

Ingredients:

2 cupSugar
3/4 cupCorn syrup
1 cupWater
3/4 tspFood coloring
3/4 tspDesired flavored oil extract
Method:
Mix sugar, syrup and water in saucepan. Stir until sugar is dissolved; continue to cook to 300-degrees. Remove from heat. Add coloring and flavoring; stir. Pour into 8 x 11-inch buttered pan. Cut into squares as candy begins to set.

Answer 2

OK the other recipes are more like "hard candy." This is the real rockcandy- grows like a crystal. It takes 2 weeks however so maybe you don't want to wait that long, LOL. Have fun!

INGREDIENTS
6 cups cold water
6 cups white sugar
DIRECTIONS
Prepare your candy growing area by thoroughly cleaning and drying a 2 quart jar. You will need a place for it to rest undisturbed for about 2 weeks.
In a large bowl, place the water. Dissolve sugar in water, a little at a time, stirring each time until sugar is completely dissolved, until no more sugar can be incorporated. Pour sugar water into clean jar and place a bamboo skewer in the jar, being sure the top sticks out over the surface of the water. Cover with a cloth, to keep out dust, and let rest until all water is evaporated and crystals have formed on the skewer, several days.
NOTE: For larger crystals, try "seeding" them, by wetting your skewer and rolling it in sugar before placing it in the sugar water. Be sure not to disturb the crystals as they are growing.

Answer 3

Hard Rock Candy!!!

INGREDIENTS
1 cup confectioners' sugar
3 3/4 cups white sugar
1 1/2 cups light corn syrup
1 cup water
2 teaspoons cinnamon oil
1 teaspoon red food coloring


DIRECTIONS
Roll the edges of two 16 inch square pieces of heavy duty aluminum foil. Sprinkle the foil very generously with confectioners' sugar.
In a large heavy saucepan, combine the white sugar, corn syrup, and water. Heat over medium-high heat, stirring constantly until sugar dissolves. Stop stirring, and boil until a candy thermometer reads 300 to 310 degrees F (149 to 154 degrees C). Remove from heat.
Stir in the cinnamon oil and food coloring. Pour onto the prepared foil, and allow to cool and harden. Crack into pieces, and store in an airtight container.
ENJOY!!!

Answer 4

hard rock candy!!!


Ingredients
3 3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup light corn syrup
1 cup water
few drops of oil of cinnamon or oil of
peppermint
food coloring (your choice of color)


Directions
Combine sugar, corn syrup and water in large saucepan. Cook on medium heat until sugar dissolves; stirring constantly. Stop stirring once sugar dissolves. Insert candy thermometer and bring to a boil until temperature reaches 310 degrees. Remove from heat, stir in oil and food coloring (to desired shade). Pour onto cookie sheet covered with aluminum foil and powdered sugar. Let cool completely, break and enjoy!

Answer 5

a million 8-inch sq. pan (be conscious: this pan would be ruined for the rest interior the destiny.) Butcher's cord a million a million/2 cups granulated sugar a million cup water Sugar thermometer Punch holes on the right edge of a skinny 8-inch sq. pan so as which you may have the flexibility to lace 7 strings from one element of the pan to the different. place the laced pan in a pan deep sufficient to capture any leaking syrup. Dissolve 2 a million/2 cups of sugar in a million cup water and cook dinner without stirring to the no longer difficulty-free-ball point, 247 ranges to 252 ranges. Pour the syrup into the laced pan. it is going to attain a point approximately 3/4-inch above the strings. conceal the exterior with a chew of foil. Watch and wait. The syrup would take as long as a week to crystallize. raise out the laced pan. decrease the strings and dislodge the rock candy. Rinse quickly decrease than chilly water and placed on racks to dry in an exceedingly low-temperature oven.

Answer 6

HARD ROCK CANDY

2 c. sugar
1 c. light corn syrup
1 c. water
1 tsp. oil (not flavoring)
Food coloring
Powdered sugar

Sprinkle cookie sheet with powdered sugar or spread a large piece of heavy aluminum foil and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Mix together sugar, syrup and water. Cook and stir occasionally until candy thermometer reaches hard crack stage. Remove from heat. Add food coloring and oil. Stir and pour on powdered cookie sheet. Cool. Break in pieces.