Saltwater taffy is a bit of a misnomer in that salt water isn't an ingredient. Taffy is just sugar, corn starch (for a smooth texture), corn syrup and butter (as interfering agents to keep the ...

For the sake of present-day research I found that saltwater taffy was invented in the U.S. around the 1880s, and in 1901, there were six patents pending for a taffy pulling machine, which could ...