Our Family Recipes
Boil sugar and syrup. Then add the milk, when it boils again add margarine. Cook to soft ball stage. (Whenever I cook it it is too hard. Maybe cook to a little lower than soft ball?)
Pour over popped popcorn and stir till all coated.
Spread on cookie sheet till cool.
Store in airtight container.
Melt 3 large Hershey’s with almond candy bars
Mix in 1 8 oz package thawed Cool Whip
Let set up in fridge.
Roll into balls – then roll in coconut
Store in fridge.
Mix in bowl:
On stove mix:
Bring to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes.
Remove from Heat. Add:
Pour over cereal and coconut.
Cool on cookie sheet. I usually just leave in bowl to cool and it seems to work fine.
Prepare in a large bowl:
Combine in LARGE heavy pan: Make sure the pan is large enough to account for it rising when boiling.
Bring to a boil (rolling). Boil 7 minutes exactly. Mix together with the ingredients in bowl and blend well. Press into 9X13 pan and let cool.
To prevent sugaring when the stuff in the pan is heating take a knife wrapped in a clean washcloth dipped in warm water and rub around the sides to get off all sugar crystals. Do as often as needed. Grandma Dennis says even one sugar crystal can sugar the whole batch.
Butter a cookie sheet. Add chopped nuts and grated chocolate.
Melt 2 cups butter or margarine (half and half) in large pan.
Add 2 cups sugar, sugar, corn syrup, and water. Stir until well blended.
Cook to hard threads (290 degrees) and stir to prevent burning.
Remove from heat. Add vanilla.
Pour candy over nuts and chocolate. Do NOT scrape pan.
Cool and break into pieces.
Mix first 4 ingredients well. Form into small shapes to dip in chocolate or press mixture into 8×8 inch baking dish, cover with layer of chocolate, and cut into small squares.
Melt butter and chocolate together. Mix in all other ingredients with a spoon until it forms a ball. Make snake shape; roll in wax paper. Cut to length and put in refrigerator.
Put dates, sweetened condensed milk, and walnuts in double boiler and mix well. Cook until thick. Keep mixture over the hot water while spooning small amount onto Ritz crackers
Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven and frost with brown butter and powdered sugar.
Just brown the butter for a minute or two until brown, then add powdered sugar until medium consistency.
12 oz. white chocolate, melted
1/4 cup un-popped popcorn (measure un-popped and then pop it) ( We found we like the airpopped popcorn because it tastes great and is easier and faster clean up, but the pan popped in oil works great. The original recipe says microwave popcorn so really any popcorn works.)
1/2 cup crushed candy canes
2-3 drops peppermint oil (we used more like 4 or more because when you put it on the popcorn it mellows the flavor out)
Red and or Green chocolate (DON’T use peppermint oil in this popcorn. It won’t drip off a spoon nice to drizzle over popcorn)
Butter marble slab before freezing.
Makes 1 1/2 pounds (That’s a lot you can make half) (on my slab which is 12×16 you need to do a half recipe. The full is too much candy for the slab)
3 Cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
5 Drops coloring
1/4 Pound butter (cut into pieces)
1 Cup warm water
17 Drops peppermint oil (15 drops = 1/4 teaspoon)
Butter marble slab and place in freezer.
Stir sugar, salt, butter and water for 2 minutes in large pan.
Put on medium high. Stir until butter melts. Put in thermometer.
Cook without stirring to 254 degrees. (250 in Colorado and Utah). If not below freezing out, cook to 256 (252 in Colorado and Utah). Must be below 40 degrees outside.
Pour on buttered, chilled marble slab (butter slab before freezing). Add flavoring and coloring. Works best with 2 people to keep it on the slab. Mix with spatula. We tried a rubber scraper and it needs something stiffer to get under the candy. So try pancake turner. Use hands as soon as possible.
Go outside and pull till it losses gloss and becomes satin. Don’t twist when pulling. It is still pliable when it is ready. If you go too long you won’t be able to cut it.
Go inside and pull into strips and cut quickly. More hands is helpful. Let cool 5-10 minutes. Store in air tight metal can with wax paper between layers. (We have done plastic and it works too)
They get soft after sitting overnight.