Christmas Candy Canes

Description
Any self-respecting Christmas tree has a right to complain if it isn't decked out with a candy cane.

Ingredients

 * 3 cup sugar
 * 1 tsp peppermint flavoring
 * ½ cup water
 * ¾ cup light corn syrup
 * ¾ tsp red vegetable coloring
 * ¼ tsp cream of tartar

Directions

 * 1) The sugar, water, syrup, and cream of tartar you combine and heat till the Sugar"s dissolved real fine.
 * 2) Divide into two saucepans, boil, but don't stir, please, until each lot reaches 280 °F.
 * 3) Add ½ ts peppermint to each lot and add the coloring to one, the other not: place on an enamel or marble table to cool.
 * 4) First oiling the table, as a general rule
 * 5) Like taffy you stretch and pull and form into ropes of red and white, now twist them around again and again.
 * 6) And form them into your candy cane.
 * 7) Now on an oiled surface you allow them to harden, then announce to your family that these is ready for your Christmas tree.