{"id":356,"date":"2019-01-02T17:39:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T17:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2019-01-09T13:15:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T13:15:50","slug":"butter-mints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/02\/butter-mints\/","title":{"rendered":"Butter Mints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Butter marble slab before freezing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makes 1  1\/2 pounds (That&#8217;s a lot you can make half) (on my slab which is 12&#215;16  you need to do a half recipe.  The full is too much candy for the slab)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Cups sugar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1\/4 teaspoon salt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Drops coloring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1\/4 Pound butter (cut into pieces)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Cup warm water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Drops peppermint oil (15 drops = 1\/4 teaspoon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Butter marble slab and place in freezer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stir sugar, salt, butter and water for 2 minutes in large pan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Put on medium high.  Stir until butter melts. Put in thermometer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cook without stirring to 254 degrees. (250 in Colorado and Utah).  If not below freezing out, cook to 256 (252 in Colorado and Utah).  Must be below 40 degrees outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pour on buttered, chilled marble slab (butter slab before freezing).  Add flavoring and coloring.  Works best with 2 people to keep it on the slab.  Mix with spatula.  We tried a rubber scraper and it needs something stiffer to get under the candy.  So try pancake turner.  Use hands as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go outside and pull till it losses gloss and becomes satin.  Don&#8217;t twist when pulling.  It is still pliable when it is ready.  If you go too long you won&#8217;t be able to cut it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go inside and pull into strips and cut quickly.  More hands is helpful.  Let cool 5-10 minutes.  Store in air tight metal can with wax paper between layers.  (We have done plastic and it works too)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They get soft after sitting overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butter marble slab before freezing. Makes 1 1\/2 pounds (That&#8217;s a lot you can make half) (on my slab which is 12&#215;16 you need to do a half recipe. The full is too much candy for the slab) 3 Cups sugar 1\/4 teaspoon salt 5 Drops coloring 1\/4 Pound butter (cut into pieces) 1 Cup &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/02\/butter-mints\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Butter Mints&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[65,67,3,66],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candy","tag-butter","tag-buttermints","tag-candy","tag-mints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}