Soak the cherries in the brandy overnight or longer. Drain the cherries, reserve the brandy. Cream the butter and sugar in a mixer. In a double boiler, melt the chocolates. Spoon the melted chocolate, spoon by spoon, into the butter and sugar mixture and mix thoroughly by hand. Add reserved brandy to sugar and chocolate […]
Candies
Orange Creams
Line baking sheet with buttered wax paper; set aside. Combine 2 1/4 c sugar, orange peel and orange juice concentrate in small bowl, adding more sugar if needed to make a stiff dough. Form dough into ball; wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 30 minutes. Roll out dough to 1/4 inch thickness on a surface covered […]
Never Fail Toffee
Directions: Combine sugar, butter and water in a heavy saucepan, cook, stirring constantly to the soft-crack stage. Add the alomds, cook, stirring to hard-crack stage. Pour immedaitely on unbuttered cookies sheet, spreading as thin as possible. Place chocolate on hot toffee, spread melting chocolate to cover the toffee.
Divinity
If you use the brown sugar and vinegar, you may prefer to call this Sea Foam. 1. Bring egg whites to room temperature. 2. Bring water and corn syrup to a boil in a heavy pan. Add white or brown sugar and vinegar, and stir until dissolved. 3. When boiling, cover pan and cook about […]
English Walnut Toffee
Melt butter and water over med.high heat. Add sugar and salt and stir with wooden spoon while bringing to a boil. Boil until it loses its yellow color and looks white, then mix in 1 cup walnuts. Cook until it becomes caramel colored ( 298-300~ ). Turn into buttered 13 x 9 x 2 pan […]
Buttery Black Walnut Brittle
In a saucepan, cook sugar, corn syrup and water until sugar dissolves and mixture comes to a boil. Add butter; cook until mixture reaches 280F on a candy thermometer. Stir in walnuts; cook until 300F (hard crack stage). Remove from the heat and stir in baking soda. Spread immediately into a greased 15x10x1-inch baking pan. […]
Toffee Bars
POWER: 50% …. TURN: Yes …. TIME: 8 min. per 6 servings Cream butter and brown sugar. Add egg yolk, flour, vanilla and salt. Spread in 8×8 glass baking dish. e at 50% power for 7 to 8 minutes. Give 1/2 turn twice during cooking. Sprinkle chocolate chips over top. Let chips soften for 2 […]
Double Cocolate Crumble Bars
Cream butter (margarine) and sugar. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. Stir together flour, chopped nuts, cocoa powder and baking powder and stir into egg mixture. Spread in bottom of greased 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan. Bake in 350 F. oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Sprinkle marshmallows evenly on top; bake 3 minutes […]
Christmas Jelly Candy
In a saucepan put gelatin and sugar, add the fruit juice and let set for 5 minutes Bring mixture to a boil, reduce heat & cook until gelatin melts, add lemon juice. Pour into shallow baking pans and chill until firm. Carefully turn out of pan using a wide spatula. Cut with various shaped cookie […]
Orange Gumdrops
Line a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan with foil, extending foil over edges of the pan. Butter the foil; set pan aside. Butter the sides of a heavy 1 1/2-quart saucepan. In the saucepan combine the 1 cup sugar and the corn syrup. Cook over medium-high heat to boiling, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon to dissolve […]