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Katie's Kitchen: Stained Glass Candy

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      Stained Glass Candy (aka Old Fashion Hard Candy)     I grew up enjoying this candy every Christmas. My grandma would always make it in multiple flavors. Eating a piece of this candy brings back such fond memories. For those that don't know what this candy is, it is the same as a Jolly Rancher, only the candy is poured out flat to look like a sheet of glass. Then you break it into pieces and these pieces will look like the glass used by artists that do stained glass. It is very pretty and tasty.  This is a pretty easy recipe to make, but there are some things that you will have to have to make it. Here is everything you will need:       Although the ingredients are listed below, the tricky one is the flavoring. Most flavorings are water-based and when you pour a water-based flavoring into a pot of molten sugar, it will evaporate, and you will have no flavor in your candy. As such, you have to find oil-based flavoring. I could not find any locally and had to search