Lemon & Honey Taffy (without corn syrup or glucose)
Traditional pulled taffy recipe without corn syrup or glucose. Soft chewy sweets made with honey and fresh lemon juice. Fairy easy to make recipe - this Lemon & Honey Taffy sweets make great gifts wrapped in individual sweet wrappers and put in small jam jars with ribbons.
Equipment
- saucepan
- kitchen scissors
- thermometer
- pastry brush
- baking tray brownie baking tray
- Greaseproof paper
- jam jars + ribbons, tags to decorate the jam jars
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar approx. 200 g
- 2/3 cup honey approx 145- 150g
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch or cornflour
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup lemon juice 120 ml or grams
- tiny pinch of salt
- 1/4 teaspoon spice Optional
Instructions
- Thoroughly butter or oil a small baking dish and set aside.
- Place all ingredients apart from spice (sugar, cornstarch, honey, butter, lemon juice and salt) in a medium-sized saucepan on low heat.
- Mix thoroughly and wait until the mixture dissolves completely.
- Increase the heat to medium-hot and heat until the mixture reaches 120C - 124 C ( 255 F) on a digital thermometer and immediately remove from the heat.
- Add any spice or additional flavouring if using and very gently stir in.
- Pour the hot taffy into the buttered baking dish. Wait 10-15 minutes or until the mixture cools down completely.
- When the taffy is cool enough to handle, butter your hands, form a big taffy ball, and begin to stretch and pull. Keep doing this for about 15 minutes.
- Do one last pull to make the taffy into a long rope with the thickness that you'd like your final sweets to be.
- Butter or oil a pair of scissors.
- Cut the taffy into bite-sized pieces.
- Cut wax paper into small squares.
- Wrap taffy in the wax squares.
