{"id":71,"date":"2008-10-26T21:25:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-10-26T21:25:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T21:25:20","slug":"butter-mints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Butter Mints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Makes 1 1\/2 pounds candy)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 cups sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 pound butter (cut in pieces)<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>1 cup warm water<\/li>\n<li>5 drops coloring<\/li>\n<li>17 drops peppermint oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stir sugar, salt, butter, and water for 2 minutes before putting on heat. Put on medium high.\u00a0 Stir till butter melts, put in thermometer.\u00a0 Cook without stirring to 248 degrees.\u00a0 Pour on buttered, chilled marble slab (butter slab before chilling). Add flavoring and coloring.\u00a0 Begin working immediately.\u00a0 Pull till looses gloss and can&#8217;t pull any more.\u00a0 Stretch in rope, cut in pieces immediately.\u00a0 Let cool, not touching each other for about 5-10 minutes.\u00a0 Store in air tight can in layers with waxed paper between layers.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let pieces touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Makes 1 1\/2 pounds candy) 3 cups sugar 1\/4 pound butter (cut in pieces) 1\/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup warm water 5 drops coloring 17 drops peppermint oil Stir sugar, salt, butter, and water for 2 minutes before putting on heat. Put on medium high.\u00a0 Stir till butter melts, put in thermometer.\u00a0 Cook without stirring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}