Show Every everyday dav cooking miracles BY VIRGINIA FRANCES director Hor point electric cookery some little girls go to atlantic city for their salt water taffy and some little girls stay home and get salt water taffy just the same its a fact you can make really truly salt water taffy right on your own electric range with its controlled heat and the seemingly infinite capacity of the thrift cooker is an ideal candy kettle especially for a taffy mixture which needs lots of room to bubble away to a perfect don loneness doneness donen eness we thought we had exhausted tb the uses of this versatile thrift cooker but no sooner does it finish proving its worth as a french fryer than it bobs up with a seven 1 melt chocolate in saucepan on surface unit turned to LOW add butter electric cookery has abolished the double boiler 2 put all other ingredients except peppermint extract into thrift cooker kettle turn calrol heat beat switch to HIGH and cook stirring until the sugar is dissolved 3 continue cooking until the tha temperature is reached remove from unit add chocolate and butter and stir only enough to blend pour in greased lian pan cold water test firm almost brittle 4 when cool enough to handle pour the peppermint extract into the center of the mass and work za z AW 4 ij 4 the thrift cooker of the electric range brings the old fashioned tag pull up to date way method of infant food cook cry or with a way of baking beans to a new degree of savory tenderness and now its a candy kettle I 1 the thrift cooker of the hotpoint Hot point electric range as you doubtless know is that deep kettle that fits into a well vell right on top of your range and so keeps out of sight where it does many inside jobs that require steaming and baking itcan also be lifted right out and set on the hi speed calrol surface unit which is where we are going to put it now to make our salt water taffy heres our fool proof recipe for a genuine gen u ine salt water taffy this ones choklot Cho klit lelit and its flavored with peppermint a rival to atlantic cites beistl chocolate mint salt water taffy 4 squares un tin 1 cup water sweetened choc salt 1 tablespoon but 2 tease teaspoons 0 ons ter glycerine 2 caps sugar 2 or 3 drops 1 cup light corn com peppermint syrup extract carefully into mixture the chocolate will also need to be blended into the taffy at this point remove from pan and pull did you know that it nece necessary to grease your hands when pulling taffy you may dip your fincers in a little cornstarch com starch if the taffy gets out of hand find that the candy will be less likely to stick if you pull it with the thumb and fingers rather than the whole hand 5 when the candy is cold and rather firm stretch out twist and cut into pieces of the desired lie ei c if you wish vish to vary flavors ast cook the taffy to and omit the chocolate divide the cooled taffy into portions and add the deziree dan red flavoring to each portion salt water taffy can be colored by adding a few drops to the taffy during the pulling process and now that we have the taffy made without any casualties except a little taffy perhaps on the traditional door knob we have a full batch of mint flavored chocolate candy a wholesome goodie to satisfy young sweet booths that go right on an craving their nourishment during hot weather |