Candy Making

And so now is the time for making Christmas candy — it’s not that we need it — it’s just the way it is.  It would make a nice gift, but John says its too good to give away.

Anyway we got our ingredients together and company came in so that delayed us. Then we got started and the telephone started ringing. Oh my!!  John did the stirring and stirring.  He had trouble getting the marshmellows and chips to melt and put the boiler back on the warm eye and finally we were ready to do the dropping on waxed paper.  I kept telling him he was making the pieces too big, but he just kept dropping anyway.  Again I said, “Make the drops smaller.”  Apparently, he didn’t hear me and just as we finished and I put the boiler in the dishwater, the telephone rung again.  By the time I finished the conversation and reached for the camera (and you know I’m not a photographer), John had already taken a piece of the good stuff to sample. See the empty space in the picture.

Perhaps this will be the only candy we make this year, but John has a delicious peanut brittle recipe and then there’s that wonder pecan brittle recipe.  Maybe after Christmas I can share them — they are worthy of trying.  Good eating……this is country living.

EASY FUDGE

Melt a stick of butter and add 2/3 cup of evaporated milk and 2 cups of sugar.  Cook 6 minutes stirring all the time and then add a bag of chocolate chips and 16 marshmallows.  When marshmallows and chips are melted, drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper.  Let cool and then store.

Fudge cooking and being stirred

Fudge Finished