[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by southbymidwest

I think nittanygirl is talking about making candy hard tack- basically sugar, karo syrup, water, flavoring and food color. It is cooked until it reaches the hard crack stage, is poured out, cooled, and scored/cracked, like a hard candy. The irregular pieces are then coated in powdered sugar. Very popular at Christmas- especially red/cinnamon and green/spearmint. But it can rip out your fillings if you aren't careful. Yeow!

Ok that makes a lot more sense than hard tack like pioneer or gold rush crackers. Hard crack/hard candy, like jolly ranchers.