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I have looked in three old Betty Crocker cookbooks and I do not see any recipe for candy lollipops. Are you sure it was Betty Crocker?

Here is one from a Better Homes cookbook-

The recipe is called Cinnamon Apples but you use the recipe for the lollipops too

1 1/3 cups sugar

2 cups light corn syrup

1/4 teaspoon red food coloring

10 drops oil of cinnamon

Combine sugar, corn syrup, and food coloring in double boiler. Cook over low heat stirring until sugar dissolves about 4 minutes. Cover and cook slowley 8 minutes. Uncover and cook without stirring to hard crack stage (300). Stir in flavoring, remove from heat and let stand a few minutes to thicken slightly, arrange wooden skewers 5 inches apart on a buttered cookie sheet. Drop hot syrup from tip of a tablespoon over the skewers to form 2-3 inch candy circles. Let cool and harden.   

I read this and knew exactly what you were asking for. I have never made these, but they are on page 166 of my BC cookbook circa 1971. My cookbook doesn't even stay together with duct tape any more!

18 lollipop sticks

1/4 cup butter or margarine

1/2 cup light corn syrup

3/4 cup sugar

few drops of food color

Lightly butter 15 1/2x12 baking sheet. Arrange sticks on sheet. Combine butter, syrup and sugar in heavy 1qt saucepan. Heat to boiling ovr med-high heat. Reduce heat to medium. Continue cooking, stirring frequently to 270 degrees on candy thermometer. Stir in food color.   Drop mixture by tablespoonfuls over one end of each stick. If desired, press on decorations while still hot. If cooled, brush underside of candy decorations with corn syrup and press on lollipop. Cool thoroughly before removing from baking sheet.

oh my goodness, I used to make those all the time with my mother when I was a little girl! I completely forgot about them until I read your post. Thanks for bringing back some wonderful childhood memories :)

luvmy4k9s,

I know what you mean! I had forgotten them too and when I seen the Betty Croker site it reminded me of some wonderful memories as a child as well! Glad I could be of help! Evelyns

Louisep71

Thanks to you and others I have finally located the recipe that I've been looking for! I only wish I had my BC book..I lost mine in a house fire about 20 years ago so hey duct tape isn't so bad..Sincerely Evelyns....

hello every one i would like to say i have some old betty crocker's cook books. one of them is text edition betty crocker's new picture cook book.and i like this one very much.i also have a lot of really old cook books some 100 to 150 years old some 1936 cook books and some really hard to find cook books.if i have the time and your looking for an old recipe just leave a message here and i'll check back and try and find it for you.i also have a  old recipe for soap.this looks like a wonderful site and i'm sure i'll enjoy all the good recipes here because i love to cook.thank you betty crocker for your website and all your fine recipes over the years.

hi there can you please send me the recipe for the soap

                  thank you.

                                    githanjai

Jello Lollipops

3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup butter
1 3 oz. box jello
20 lollipop sticks

Spray 2 baking sheets with nonstick spray. Place sticks on sheet pans.

Heat sugar, corn syrup and butter until sugar has dissolved. Slowly bring to a boil until candy thermometer reads 275 degrees. Remove from heat and stir in jello until smooth. Drop by tablespoons over sticks. If mixture gets too thick to pour, heat gently until thinned.

Karo Lollipops

1 cup Karo light corn syrup
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
1 1/2 teaspoons flavoring
1/2 teaspoon food color

Place three dozen popsicle or lollipop sticks on a greased pan or aluminum foil.
Heat corn syrup, sugar and water in saucepan over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves, then cook, without stirring, to 300 degrees on candy thermometer. Remove from heat and stir in flavoring and color. Pour a small amount of candy over one end of each stick to make a circle 2 inches across. If mixture gets too thick to pour, stir over very low heat just to re-melt.
You can decorate by adding sprinkles to the lollipops before they harden.
For Lemon flavoring, use yellow food coloring
For Cherry flavoring, use red food coloring
For Peppermint or Apple flavoring use green food coloring
For Orange flavoring use orange food coloring

This is the recipe in the "Betty Crocker's Cookbook" copyright 1972.   Hope this is what you are looking for.

Lollipops

18 lollipop sticks

1/4 c butter or margarine

1/2 c light corn syrup

3/4 c sugar

few drops food color

Lightly butter baking sheet, 15 1/2x12 inches.  Arrange lollipop sticks on baking sheet.  Combine butter, corn syrup and sugar in heavy 1 quart saucepan.  Heat to boiling over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally.  Reduce heat to medium.  Continue cooking, stirring frequently, to 270 on candy thermometer (or until a few drops of syrup dropped into very cold water separate into threads which are hard but not brittle.)  Stir in food color.  Drop mixture by tablespoonfuls over end of each lollipop stick.  If desired, while lollipops are hot, press on candy decorations.  To decorate when cooled, brush underside of candy decorations wiht corn syrup and press onto lollipops.  Cool lollipops thoroughly before removing from baking sheet.

 Eighteen 2-inch lollipops.

Thank you so so much! This is exactly the recipe I was looking for!  Can't wait to start making them ! Not only will my little girl love them, I myself am looking forward to tasting them again!  Sincerely Evelyns..

Hi, I made lollies for a living for nearly 15 years.  The recipe is 1 cups granulated sugar

                                                                                     1/3 c. white corn syrup

                                                                                     1/2 c. water    (Cook to 305 degrees) , remove from heat and

                                                                                          add  1/4 to 1 teas OIL-BASED FLAVORING and food color 

to match flavor, such as red for strawberry, yellow for lemon, and white with pink or blue streaks for cotton candy.    Be sure to stir only until sugar is disolved, then keep track of thermometer.    Mixture will be light yellow as all moisture has been cooked out.  While mixture is cooking prepare lolly molds by putting in sticks and spraying lightly with Pam.  Pour hot mixture into molds that are layed out on marble slab or very heavy griddle.  Allow to cool before removing molds ,bag, seal, and label This recipe makes 10  one ounce lollies.                                                                                                                                                      May be frozen or left at room temperature and will keep for months, but do not refrigerate.   If you have no molds, mixture may be poured onto heavy cookie sheet, cooled and broken into hard candy pieces simply by banging it on table or counter or tapping it with metal spatula or knife.  We often use this process for peppermint, spearmint, hot cinnamon at Christmastime.                                                                                                                                                    When mixture will no longer pour, do not try to make it come out of pan.  The only way to get it out is to reheat slightly (It will burn easily) or run lots of water in the pan.  We used cheap aluminum 2 quart sauce pans for our production and would have 4 pans cooking at all times all day long, often making 600-750  lollies per day.  If you get into them this big, I suggest that you do not make too many different flavors in a day, as your home becomes very scented.  Also, never , never make more than a triple batch--use 3 qt. saucepan if you make triple batch) They bubble up high when first cooking and also you cannot pour out into molds more than this  before they set and without your arms hurting.  Be very careful as this is very hot and can burn deeply.

 I purchased the flavorings from a Utah supplier and the flavoring was the most expensive part of the candy, running $4.00 to $30.00 an ounce, however an ounce goes a long way, making at least 100 lollies.  (I actually bought in pints in later years.)

 I don't know how old your little girl is, but be sure she keeps her distance.  My children made them themselves at 8 to 10 years old, but they had grown up around them.

evelyns helper:

I have been looking for the recipe for candy lollipops that I used to have in an old Betty Crocker cookbook. It has been at least 30 years since I had that particular edition and I cannot find the recipe in any new editions. The lollipops were made using light corn syrup and a candy thermometer and other ingredients that I cannot remember.Your help locating this recipe would be greatly appreciated as I would love to make them with my little girl. Thank you

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Thank you for your response . And yes I will be careful with my little one.

 i have looked for the lollipops but i could not find any....

               check other books.