"T5NF" wrote in message
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Geez Nan, sorry to hear about your dad. Though this isn't a recipe for
hard
candy, it seems like it would work with any sort of liquer:

http://cocktails.about.com/library/r...ttobonbons.htm

Excruciatingly hot sugar syrup scares me so I don't do much in the way of
hard
candy ;-). I think I'd probably sneak in a thermos or drench a tea bread
in
his alcohol of choice...I'd imagine if you were making hard candies, the
alcohol would evaporate off...I'd probably need a drink too if I broke my
hip!


I used to make Hard Candy in High School, it is rather easy. I always over
cook the soft and chewy candies. I made caramels once that could remove
impacted wisdom teeth without surgery.
We used to get Martini flavor hard candy from the Swiss Colony but they seem
to no longer have it. I've found other cocktail flavors but not martini.
I found a recipe for Vermouth and can use the spices to make my own extract
and Juniper berries for the Gin but holy smokes that is a bit much. I'll
just find him some nice strong cinnamon drops, he likes those.
Dad had a hip replacement on Wednesday, he insisted that the Docs only
repaired the hip. Mom can't figure why he won't accept that it is a
replacement. I think he feels that he's lossing too many orginal parts. He
wears partial dentures, had a colonectomy last year and now the Hip. So
I've started calling him Darth Dad.
-nan-