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ARMAND'S
HARPER VALLEY
FAMILY FARM
RED CANDIED APPLES
10-12 pointed wooden skewers
10-12 medium apples
3 Cups sugar
¼ t cream of tartar
⅔
cup water
1 t lemon juice
15 whole cloves (or 1 teaspoon vanilla)
1 or 2 t red food coloring
Stick skewers in stem end of apples securely. Combine sugar, cream of
tartar, water lemon juice & cloves in heavy saucepan. Stir until sugar
dissolves. Add food color. Without stirring, cook to 300 on candy
thermometer (hard crack stage). Remove. Quickly skim out cloves. (Stir
in vanilla if using). Twist apples in syrup. Set on buttered cookie
sheet to harden. Notes: Use small, deep saucepan. Don't let apples
touch when drying. Make them the day they will be used. Use draft-free
part of kitchen.
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