Taffy Recipes

Grandma's Old Fashioned Taffy Recipes Make Rich, Creamy, Chewy Candy

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Old-Time Taffy Recipe

1-1/2 pints of sugar, 1/2 pint of cream, 1 tablespoon of good vinegar. Boil until it hardens when dripped into cold water.

Old-Time Butterscotch Recipe

Grandma made this traditional English butterscotch candy when they ranched on the Alberta prairie northeast of Calgary. It is simple and easy, and it makes a deliciously brittle taffy.

3 tablespoons of white sugar, 3 tablespoons of molasses, 2 tablespoons of water, 1 ounce of butter, a very small quantity of baking soda. Boil mixture until it is brittle.

Everton Taffy with Brown Sugar

Put butter, 1/4 lb, into a suitable dish, with brown sugar, 1 lb; stir over the fire for 15 minutes, or until the mixture becomes brittle when dropped in cold water; add lemon or vanilla flavoring after the cooking is completed; cool on flat buttered tins and mark in squares, before cold, so it can be easily broken.

Remarks. --This is a cheap confection, and it is safe to say that no kind of candy brings in so large a revenue to the small manufacturers and dealers from the school children of New York as Everton taffy. --Dr. Chase

Everton Taffy with White Sugar

Put loaf sugar, 1 lb, into a brass pan (any saucepan will do) with a cup of water; beat 1/4 lb of butter to a cream; when the sugar is dissolved add the butter, and keep stirring the mixture over the fire until it sets, when a little is poured on a buttered dish. Just as it is done add 6 drops of essence of lemon. Butter a tin, pour on the mixture, 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick, and when cool it will easily separate from the dish. Mark off in squares, if you wish it to break easily.

Remarks. --If this was not called Everton taffy, after its first maker, I should consider it butterscotch, but under its new name, it will taste all the sweeter. --Dr. Chase