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Homemade Vinegar Taffy Recipe – Old Fashioned Sweet Treat!

This homemade vinegar taffy recipe makes a fun candy to make anytime. It’s an easy old fashioned taffy recipe. Try having a taffy pull at your next older kids party, adult party, fall or Christmas party.

This homemade vinegar taffy recipe makes a fun candy to make anytime. It's an easy old fashioned taffy recipe. Try having a taffy pull at your next older kids party, adult party, fall or Christmas party.
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Homemade Old Fashioned Vinegar Taffy Recipe

This homemade vinegar taffy recipe makes a fun candy to make anytime. It's an easy old fashioned taffy recipe. Try having a taffy pull at your next older kids party, adult party, fall or Christmas party.
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  • Author: Jill Cooper
  • Yield: 8 dozen

Ingredients

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2 cups dark corn syrup
1 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. butter
1 Tbsp. vinegar
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. vanilla or other flavoring
food coloring

Instructions

  1. Combine the first four ingredients in a saucepan.
  2. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly until the sugar dissolves. Continue cooking to 260°.
  3. Remove from heat.
  4. Stir in baking soda, vanilla and a few drops of food coloring.
  5. Beat until smooth and creamy.
  6. Pour into a buttered pan.
  7. When cool enough to handle, butter your hands and pull until light in color.
  8. Pull into long strips and cut into 1 inch pieces.

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  1. Lisa T

    December 8, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    You didn’t ever add the vinegar….?

    Reply
    • Jill

      December 8, 2011 at 1:57 pm

      Lisa it is suppose to say the first 5 ingredients so you add at the first.

      Reply
  2. D.T.

    December 12, 2011 at 10:25 am

    all i buy is apple cidar vinegar, will that work? the one and only time i made taffy was at my grandma’s church when i was a pre-teen. good memories.

    Reply
  3. Joy

    December 20, 2011 at 9:13 am

    Is this a hard candy or a soft candy? I am want a soft taffy recipe. Thanks

    Reply
    • Tawra

      December 20, 2011 at 4:01 pm

      Yes it is. It isn’t like soft water taffy.

      Reply
      • Cindy

        November 15, 2022 at 6:24 am

        The vinegar was the 4th of the 4 ingredients to add to the saucepan at the beginning of the recipe.

        Reply
  4. Kay

    December 21, 2011 at 9:36 am

    Is additional food coloring to be added a second time after it is boiled with the first 5 ingredients? If so, is this to make it the color you prefer? If not, is it to be added before or after the boiling of first 4 and not first 5 ingredients? Really confused.

    Reply
    • Tawra

      December 21, 2011 at 1:19 pm

      Kay when you remove it from the heat just add the soda, vanilla and how much food coloring you want at this time and you are good to go. You don’t even have to add the food coloring if it will be easier for you because it is just for fun and to make it any color you want. Jill

      Reply
      • Barb

        June 2, 2015 at 1:09 pm

        I had the same question and I’m confused about the answer. It says to combine the first 5 ingredients, which includes coloring and then add coloring after removing from the heat. You say the food coloring is optional, is there a missing ingredient in the 4th position?

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        • Jill

          June 2, 2015 at 8:02 pm

          Sorry it was my mistake. I fixed it on the recipe. Do the syrup, sugar, butter, and vinegar then add the food coloring at the end. Sorry for the mix up and thanks for the heads up.

          Reply
  5. Shirley

    November 20, 2012 at 5:53 pm

    Can you add flavors to is for differnet flavors and if so what kind?

    Reply
    • Jill

      November 21, 2012 at 5:08 am

      Yes you can and pretty much any flavor you like.

      Reply
  6. cathy f

    January 19, 2013 at 2:08 pm

    what type of vinegar is to be used?

    thank-you

    cathy

    Reply
    • Jill

      January 21, 2013 at 7:02 am

      Regular white vinegar.

      Reply
    • Jennika

      June 3, 2022 at 7:58 am

      Can you use just apple cider vinger if you don’t have any white regular vinger?

      Reply
      • Jill

        June 3, 2022 at 9:54 am

        You can use apple cider vinegar but just be aware it might change the flavor slightly but should be ok.

        Reply
  7. dt

    December 10, 2013 at 9:54 am

    so is it soft? but not like salt water taffy? please clarify

    Reply
    • Jill

      December 10, 2013 at 10:35 am

      If it is cooked correctly it hardens like a hard candy.

      Reply
  8. Magdalen

    May 9, 2015 at 1:55 pm

    Thank you. I remember reading about “taffy pulling” in some American story when I was little. Now I understand!

    Reply
  9. Cassy

    May 17, 2021 at 11:10 am

    One of our favorite cold winter evening activities at Grandpa’s. As soon as is was cool enough, Grandpa would throw it up over the coat hooks at the door with his “buttered hands” and let fall again and again until it was pulled enough and then Grandma would cut it into pieces.
    Thanks for a fond memory from the 1950’s.

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