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[rach912]

What is salt water Taffy?

[Wraith]

Taffy

\Taf"fy\, n. [Prov. E. taffy toffy.] 1. A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans. [Written also, in England, toffy.]

Try this link for Salt Water Taffy.

 

http://tinyurl.com/6wq42

 

 

[Luckyscot]

Its a candy here is the recipe

 

Real Saltwater Taffy
 


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Because I live in Miami, I get a supply of fresh salt water every time I go to the beach. If you do not have an ocean handy, just use tap water with a teaspoon of salt dissolved in it.
Ingredients


1 cup sugar
3/4 cup light corn syrup
2/3 cup salt water (or fresh water with 1 tsp. salt)
1 tbsp. cornstarch
2 tbsp. sweet butter
2 tbsp. vanilla
3 to 4 drops red coloring

Directions


Mix all the ingredients in a medium-sized saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture reaches 260 degrees on a candy thermometer, or until a bit of the mixture dropped into iced water forms into a hard ball.

Remove from the heat. Pour into a buttered 8-by-8-by-2-inch square pan.

Allow to cool slightly, and then pull taffy until shiny, stiff and light in color. If the taffy begins to get too sticky, butter hands lightly.

Pull into long strips about 1/2-inch wide. Using scissors, cut into 1-inch pieces and wrap them individually in waxed paper.

Keep in an airtight container. Makes about 1 pound. 
 

[zgma]

It's really good - it's taffy that is soft and chewy, because it's got tiny little air pockets trapped in it.  The pulling doesn't allow it to harden like hard candy. 

 

What's really amazing is to see the machines that they use to make it in bulk - they are these huge taffy-pulling machines that have a couple of rotating arms that continuously pull the taffy and wrap it around itself.  Hard to describe - fun to watch!

[SteveD]

I've never seen "toffee" written "toffy".

 

[natalie_1982]

It's water with salt in it, and I'm not Welsh.

[rinkytink]

 

Basically it's Toffee.

 

[zgma]

It's not the same as toffee - if toffee is the same in the US as in the UK.  I am thinking of toffee as brown buttery stuff that is either chewy or brittle, is that right?

 

Salt water taffy is multi colored and not necessarily tasting of brown sugar or butter.   It can be flavoured with mint, or lemon, or other flavourings like that, and if you make it without adding a flavour, it's white and chewy and somewhat fluffy - not as dense as toffee.

[rach912]

Thanks for your answers everyone, much appreciated!

[SteveD]

Is it marshmallow,

[aurelia]

I think it's between toffee and treacle - ther'e even a song about it

[Kingaroo]

No No, not marshmallow, very different. Not soft and puffy, not so sicky sweet, a little harder to chew.
And definitely not toffee either.
You can eat a lot of it and your jaw won't get all that tired.
A classic treat to buy at the beach (or the "shore" if you're from New Jersey)
Many pastel colors, even stripes. Each wrapped separately in a bit of white paper soyou can tell what color you're getting.

[SteveD]

I was also thinking of fudge, but that's usually a light brown colour:

http://www.fudge-kitchen.co.uk/