Poppy Tooker

Vanilla Pull Taffy

Preparation info
  • Yields

    ½ lb

    .
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Louisiana Eats!: The People, the Food, and Their Stories
Louisiana Eats!

By Poppy Tooker

Published 2013

  • About

No one knows the exact candy recipe except for Ronnie. As a teenager, I learned to make a simple formula from one of my mother’s cookbooks. Here’s my adaptation of a classic taffy recipe.

Ingredients

  • 1¼ cups sugar
  • ¼ cup water
  • 2 tbsp.

Method

Combine sugar, water, vinegar, and butter in a saucepan and stir over low heat until the sugar is dissolved. Then, without stirring, increase the heat to medium-high to cook quickly to the very hard-ball stage (between 268 and 270 degrees Fahrenheit). Add vanilla and pour out onto a cold, buttered surface.

When the mixture is soft enough that you can press a dent on the surface with you