Anise Candy

Twelve Days of Candy-Making — Day 11

Create memories your families and friends will savor for years to come

Anise Candy

(Ruth Catherine Peters)

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup light corn syrup

1/2 cup water

5-8 drops of anise oil

Red or green food coloring

Butter two cookie sheets.

Combine first three ingredients and cook until the mixture reaches 300°F (hard crack stage). Add the anise oil and food coloring. To make the hot mixture easier to remove from the candy kettle, tilt the kettle inside a stainless steel bowl. Drop the candy by teaspoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets. Work quickly. Remove drops when cooled. (Candy recipe can be doubled.)

 “This recipe for anise candy was given to my mother, Anna (Lodermeier) Schellinger by one of her nieces, Dorothy (Zurowski) Plantenberg, when I was a small child,” Ruth recalls. “My mother poured the anise syrup into a greased pan, then cooled, scored and broke it into pieces.”