The Week End Economists Take a Trip Down the Candy Asile. Apr 30 - May 01, 2016.

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1. My mom used to make candied apples when I was a kid for Holloween.

She would boil Kayro syrup until the hard cracked stage using the water test then add oil of cinnamon, red food coloring and then dip apples on a stick. They were awesome. The right amount of crackly crunch with a bit of cinnamon heat together with the tart sweetness of a McIntosh Apple. She would make them by the bushel for us kids. We had them all over the house days before Halloween. She would have to go to the Pharmacy to get the oil of cinnamon. It came in a small vial and we would stick tooth picks in it to make our own cinnamon picks as kids. Damn, I miss my mom. I found her old recipe written in long hand on an old yellowed piece of paper, it's at least 50-yrs old. I may have to try my hand at the apples to see if I can do it.

Any one remember Jolly Rancher Fire sticks. They used to be here in Colorado up in Arvada and when you drove by you could smell the candy being made.