Anyone have a recipe on how to make taffy. Looking to make soft taffy.
Maple taffy recipe
Anyone have a recipe on how to make taffy. Looking to make soft taffy.
There is no recipe, just boil the syrup until there are large bubbles in the foam and the edges of the bubbles are starting to darken then pour onto snow or ice, cooling it quickly and roll the taffy onto popsicle sticks. I'm sure there a temp you could look for on a candy thermometer but we dont use one so cant tell you what it is! If you allow the syrup to cool slowly with gentle stirring you will get maple candy as the sugar has time to form Crystal's and harden. You're essentially taking the syrup at 33% water down to 0% water.
2023 - 130 taps, 90L from 4,000L as of mid March
2021 - 84 taps, 50L from 2100L
2020 - 100 taps on buckets, 21L syrup from 2700L so far (FEB 26-Mar 13) and then the pandemic hit! End of our season!
2019 - 62 taps on buckets, 95L syrop from 3215L sap
2018 - 62 taps, collecting by hand, 90L syrop from 3200L sap
2017 - Lapierre Waterloo Small mini pro with 40 taps
2014 - 2016 40 taps making one or two batches on a 2x6 flat pan over an open arch as it would have been done in 1900
Thanks kind of info I was looking for
I haven’t made snow candy yet, but I will. I have made maple fudge, real fudge and real taffy. Real taffy you heat to the hard ball stage, but maple taffy or snow candy you heat to the soft ball stage temperature of 235°.
This is a simple video, but it covers the main points and shows how simple it is to make. https://youtu.be/V7bmSLOubsM
2022 - 5 pan block arch - 109 taps, 73 on 3/16 lines, 36 on drops into 5 gallon pails.
930 gallons boiled, 109 L (28.8 gals) of delicious syrup made.
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2023 - 170 taps, mostly on lines, 1153 gallons boiled, 130 L (34.34 gals) of delicious syrup made, on a 2x4 divided pan and base stack, 8” pipe, on a block arch that boiled at a rate of 13 gallons per hour.
2024 - made 48 L, December to March, primarily over two fire bowls.
We heat the syrup to between 232 and 234 degrees depending on the barometric pressure. Once you remove it from the heat, don't move it around. Let the bubbles settle down before you pour it. We serve around 1000 taffy pops on Maine maple weekend. We put it in mason jars with a pour lid and have them in a hot water bath, waiting to be poured onto the snow.
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