I am looking for directions on how to make the candy for a board candy.
Can anyone help?
 
      Here is what I do to make bee candy:
Bee Candy     Tim Sterrett  1996
 
I use an electric saucepan
         set to whatever is really 240 degrees F. (Use a candy thermometer.)
         (I set the saucepan to 325 degrees which seems to heat the mix to
240 degrees.)
 
1/2 bag of sugar
       ( about 2 1/2 pounds)
 
1/2 bottle of Karo Syrup
  (just below the line under the word Karo)
  Heat one minute in microwave to make pouring faster.
 
2/3 cup of water
    (heat water in emptied Karo bottle to get last Karo out)
     One minute in microwave.
 
Stir before heating or the mixture will burn.
 
Cook 10 minutes (Set a  timer for 10 minutes)
 
Let sit for 5 minutes. (Set timer.)
 
Stir for 30 seconds.  (Don't stir too soon or mix
                           will foam up.)
 
Pour into white plastic 5-quart ice cream pail.  Makes round cake  of sugar
candy about 2 inches by 8 inches.
                (Don't need to spray with PAM to get cake out again.)
        Ice cream pails are on on newspaper on porch.
          Two pails is enough.  First cake is cool enough to take out of pail
when third cake is ready to be poured into pail.
 
Wrap finished cake in plastic wrap
        so cakes can be separated and handled.
        Take wrap off before putting cake on hive.
       (Plastic wrap gets in the way of the second
        cake put on the bees.)
Remember that the cooking mixture is HOT, much hotter and stickier than
boiling water.
Tim
Tim Sterrett
Westtown, (Southeastern) Pennsylvania, USA
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