Papa and Mimi's Suckers

2 cups sugar

2/3 cup corn Syrup

1 cup water 

1/2 teaspoon oil flavoring

1/2 teaspoon food coloring ( or a few drops) 

1/8 teaspoon citric acid powder

Prepare molds by placing them on a cookie sheet with the stick inserted and the bands around the end of molds. Arrange molds on a flat surface. Spray both molds and surface with a light coat of cooking spray. Combine sugar, water, and corn syrup in a heavy duty saucepan. Cook to hard crack stage (300 Degrees). It seems like it takes a while to heat up at first but at the end it gets from like 280ish to 300 QUICKLY. So watch the candy thermometer closely! And do not over cook. Remove from heat. Add food coloring and stir gently, for one to two minutes. Add flavoring, and citric acid ( for fruity flavors), and stir until throughly mixed. Pour into molds. When suckers have set, remove from surface and molds. 

SOUR POWER: 

Use the regular mixture of sugar, corn syrup, and water and cook to 300. Remove from heat and add flavoring and color; COOL MIXTURE DOWN to 255; then add solution of 1 teaspoon citric acid dissolved in 1 Tablespoon of water, add to COOLED mixture and pour into molds. 

BUTTERSCOTCH:

After sugar, karo syrup and water dissolve and come to a boil and 1/4 cube of butter and 1/8 teaspoon of salt. Cook to 300 and remove from heat. 

CINNAMON: 

After adding cinnamon flavoring, walk throughout the house fanning your hand over the pot to make your house smell like Christmas, Papa style:)