Hard candy (christmas)

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity	Measure	Ingredient
2	cups	Sugar
1	cup	Water
¾	cup	Light corn syrup
		Food coloring
		Oil flavoring
		Red - cinnamon
		Blue - anise
		Yellow - lemon or banana
		Green - peppermint
		Orange - orange

Directions

Cook sugar, water and corn syrup to 300 degrees (or until mixture makes a hard boil and strings when dropped into cold water). Add food coloring and oil flavoring of choice. Pour into a buttered platter and cool 5 minutes. Cut into pieces with scissors. Roll each piece in powdered sugar. (Note: If you let candy cool for entire 5 minutes, it will be too hard to cut.) File