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Dessert
American
4 - 6 servings
30 minutes
20 minutes
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Red food coloring
Wash and stem lady apples. Place each on a small stick. Combine sugar, water, corn syrup and cinnamon in the top of a double boiler and heat, stirring, until dissolved. Then add enough food coloring to turn the mixture a deep red.
Continue to heat mixture gently, stirring until it thickens and forms a ball when dropped from the tip of the spoon into cold water. Remove double boiler from heat.
Dip lady apples one at a time into syrup, twirling the sticks to coat evenly. Then let cool and harden either on waxed paper, or on a platter generously coated with peanut oil.
The double boiler keeps the syrup fluid while you work.
Variations:
For the lady apples, substitute whole large grapes (with their seeds intact), or large California dates, pitted. Impale several on a stick, or one at a time on toothpicks. For the syrup, substitute 1 cup sugar, 3/4 cup water and 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar. Cook as in step 3 until the mixture spins a thread.
