Ingredients[]
- Vegetable oil
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup light corn syrup
- 3/4 cup apple-cherry drink
- 1 3/4 ounces powdered pectin
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 drops red food color, if desired
- additional sugar
Directions[]
- Line loaf pan, 9 x 5 x 3 inches, with aluminum foil. Brush with oil.
- Heat 1 cup sugar and the corn syrup to boiling in 1-1/2 quart saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until sugar is dissolved.
- Cook, without stirring, to 280 degrees on candy thermometer or until small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water separates into hard but not brittle threads.
- While cooking sugar mixture, heat apple-cherry drink, pectin and baking soda to boiling (this should take 1 to 2 minutes); remove from heat.
- Stir in food color.
- Let stand 2 minutes.
- Skim off foam.
- Combine sugar and fruit mixtures
- Pour into pan. Let stand uncovered at room temperature 24 hours.
- Lift foil from pan and remove foil from sides.
- Cut into 3/4-inch squares with knife dipped in sugar.
- Roll squares in sugar.
- Let stand at room temperature 1 hour.
- Store gumdrops in airtight container.