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Serves: 6
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Category: Sweet Fruits
1 pound crab apples
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup light corn syrup
Dash cinnamon
Red food coloring
1. Wash and stem crab apples. Place each on a small stick.
2. 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.
3. Continue to heat mixture gently, stirring until it thickens and forms a ball when dropped from the tip of the spoon into cold water.
4. Remove double boiler from heat. Dip crab 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.
NOTE: The double boiler keeps the syrup fluid while you work.
VARIATIONS:
* For the crab 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.
The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook. ©1994 by Gloria Bley Miller.
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