Traditional taffy pull

Mormons hold family home evening, a family-based worship and fun activity time, almost sacred and they hold it usually on Mondaya evening, making Monday evening almost as sacred as the Sabbath Day. So Carolyn and I felt especially honored to be invited by the Pinnegars to share in their Monday evening dinner and festivities following.

While some of the family were picking up and washing the dishes, David was putting the finishing touches on "Flat Stanley" a visitor from out of state who, like us, was visiting the family for the evening. For reasons which shall soon be obvious, Flat Stanley was mostly an observer.

Carolyn contributed her skill, experience, and recipes to help make the evening a success. The temperature of the sugar mixtures is critical for the candy to set up correctly.

While most of us washed our hands and spread them with margarine, others of the group like Travis were skeptical. OK, he said, show me what's going on but don't about think about getting get my hands wet or messy!

Justin finds that it isn't as easy as he expected buy it does start coming together.


Victoria and her mother
Karen
demonstrated the pinch and pull technique to get air into the sugar mixture while not burning yourself.
Senni picked up the technique almost automatically,

although she was a bit melodramatic when showing the technique to her aunt Ryann and Flat Stanley. As you can see, a fun time was had by all.