RED CANDIED APPLES

• 10-12 pointed wooden skewers
• 10-12 medium apples
• 3 Cups sugar
• 1/4 t cream of tartar
• 2/3 cup water
• 1 t lemon juice
• 15 whole cloves (or 1 teaspoon vanilla)
• 1 or 2 t red food coloring

Stick skewers in stem end of apples securely. Combine sugar, cream of tartar, water lemon juice & cloves in heavy saucepan. Stir until sugar dissolves. Add food color. Without stirring, cook to 300 on candy thermometer (hard crack stage) . Removet. Quickly skim out cloves. (Stir in vanilla if using). Twist apples in syrup. Set on buttered cookie sheet to harden. Notes: Use small, deep saucepan. Don1t let apples touch when drying. Make them the day they will be used. Use draft-free part of kitchen.
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