2 1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. water
1/4 c. vinegar
1/8 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. butter
1 tsp. vanilla

Combine first 5 ingredients in small Dutch oven. Cook without stirring over medium heat just until mixture reaches soft crack stage (270 degrees). Remove from heat, stir in vanilla.

Pour candy into a well buttered 15x10x1 jelly roll pan or slab of marble. Let cool to touch, pull candy until light in color and difficult to pull. (Butter hands if candy is sticky.)

Divide candy in half and pull into rope 1 inch in diameter. Cut taffy into 1 inch pieces, wrap each piece individually in waxed paper. Yields about 40 pieces.