Yummy Santa Tested Candy

Pull Taffy

Needs 12" x 9" pan

1 cup molasses
1 cup sugar
2 tsp. vinegar
2 Tbs. butter
1/8 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. Watkins Baking Powder

Butter pan. Measure molasses, sugar, vinegar into large sauce pan. Stir & cook until candy thermometer reaches 260^o. Take pan from stove. Add butter, salt & baking soda. Mixture will foam. Stir until it stops. Pour into buttered pan & cool. Wash hands. Butter plate & hand. Pull & Push. Pull & fold back until satiny - impossible to pull. Give one last pull, twist like rope. Cut with hot scissors.

* Mrs. Santa only uses Watkins Baking Powder because it contains no aluminum.