Big Flat Suckers (Grandma Morgan)

4 cups sugar                                                          

1 cup Karo syrup

1 cup hot water

1 tsp. salt

¾ tsp. red food coloring

½ to ¾ tsp. cinnamon oil

Cook to 290° or hard crackle.  Add ¾ tsp. red food coloring or red cake coloring.  Then add liquid.  Add flavoring (Cinnamon oil ½ to ¾ tsp., root beer 1 tsp. extract.  Don’t need coloring.  Place popsicle sticks on greased marble slab.  Pour on end of sticks.  Move on marble slab as soon as possible to let air between slab and candy to finish hardening.