Taffy Apple Salad

Apples are a tasty wholesome food, easy to carry for snacking, low in calories, a natural mouth freshener, and they are still very inexpensive. The old saying of "an apple a day, keeps the doctor away" has a good deal of merit. Eating one or more apples a day may lower your risk for Alzheimer's disease and cancers of the breast, colon, and prostate as well as numerous other conditions. To get the full advantage you must also eat the skin.

There is nothing like Fall with the aroma of fresh apples in the air as you pick your own in the local apple orchard. My popular thing to do with my grandchildren is apple picking and then going home and development some of the tasty recipes from those fresh picked apples. Some of our popular recipes contain apple pie, apple crisp, apple butter, applesauce, baked apples, candied apples, apple bars, apple cake and this fabulous Apple Taffy Salad.

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This is a great recipe for kids. It positively does taste like a taffy apple! If you want your kids to eat apples you have to try this salad.

Servings: 10-12

Ingredients:

1 can (20 ounces) crushed pineapple drained with juice reserved

1 egg, lightly beaten

1/2 cup sugar

1 tablespoon all-purpose flour

1 and 1/2 tablespoon cider vinegar

1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed

4 cups diced unpeeled apples

2 cups lightly salted peanuts, coarsely chopped

4 cups little marshmallows (optional)

Directions:

In a large bowl, consolidate pineapple and marshmallows; cover and refrigerate for any hours.

In a saucepan, consolidate the egg, sugars, flour, vinegar and reserved pineapple juice; cook and stir until aggregate thickens and reaches 160°. Take off from the heat; cool.

Cover and refrigerate.

Fold whipped topping into the chilled dressing. Add the apples and peanuts to the pineapple and marshmallows. Fold dressing into fruit mixture. Refrigerate leftovers.

Taffy Apple Salad

12 OUNCES EQUALS HOW MANY CUPS