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Ingredients

  • 12 apples smalls Red eating
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cup light corn syrup
  • 1 cup water
  • 3 drops oil cloves
  • 12 candies Red cinnamon

Method

  • Wash apples in hot water and dry.
  • Insert a skewer in blossom end of each apple.
  • In a saucepan mix sugar, corn syrup, and water.
  • Cook over direct heat, stirring, until sugar dissolves.
  • Add oil of cloves and a little coloring.
  • Continue cooking, without stirring, until a small amount of mixture forms a hard piece that cracks when dropped into cold water (290 F. on a candy thermometer).
  • Set pan over boiling water.
  • Dip each apple into syrup, remove, and whirl apple until syrup covers it smoothly.
  • Stand apples, skewer side up, on tray or plate to