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Old fashion vintage candy  recipes from the past.. We found these candy  in vintage recipe boxes! Most of these recipe boxes are from the 30's, 40's, 50's, and 60's. If we have the name of the lady the recipe belonged to, we have given her the credit for the recipe on our site.  I hope someone may find one of their mother's lost recipes here. Seemed as if every kitchen and every lady of the house had a recipe card file in their kitchen.  Our recipes come from these ladies of the past.

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Peanut Brittle is an all time classic tasty treat.  It is fast, easy, and fun to make, let alone eat.  Here's two peanut brittle recipe found in the same old recipe box.  This lady's recipe box contained some very fine recipes, she is the owner of the Popcorn Wreath recipe too.

Peanut Brittle Treats Recipe 1 2 cups sugar, 1 cup light corn syrup, 1/2 cup water, 10oz fresh raw Spanish peanuts, 1/8 t salt, 1 t baking soda, 1 t vanilla extract, and 1 T butter Combine sugar, syrup, and water in large, heavy frying pan.  Place over medium heat and stir until sugar dissolves,  Cover and cook for 3 minutes. Remove, cover and cook till soft ball stage (234 degrees F.)  Add peanuts, stirring frequently, cook until brittle reaches har crack stage or brittle stage 300 degrees F.)  remove from heat , add remaining ingredients.  Stir until well blended.  Spread on a well buttered 14 1/2 x 17" cookie sheet.  As candy cools, loosen edges of brittle on all four sides of sheet.  Lift up and pull edges gently to stretch candy as thin as possible.  Break or cut off then portion.  repeat process until all of candy has been pulled.  Break up when cool.

This Peanut Brittle Recipe was discovered in a box. 2 cups white sugar 1 cup light Karo 1/2 cup water pinch of salt                 Boil to 250 degrees add 2 cups peanuts       Cook to 300 degrees Remove from fire and add 1/2 tsp vanilla 1 1/2 tsp soda and 1 tbs. butter, then stir until frothy. Pour on buttered cookie sheet and smooth with fork.  Let cool and break into pieces.                 Signed by  Mary Anderson 1952 Isn't this just too cool!

Peanut Brittle Recipe 2 1 cup sugar, 1 cup light corn syrup, 1 1/2 cup water, 1 tsp butter, 2 cups raw peanuts, 1 tsp vanilla 1 1/2 tsp soda.  Mix sugar, syrup, and water, cook to soft ball stage, 236 degrees.  Add butter and peanuts, cook untill syrup turns a golden brown and has reached the hard crack stage. 300 degrees.  Remove from heat and add vanilla, soda.  Stir until foamy, pour quickly into well greased cooky sheet.  Whith buttered hands, streatch candy out to make as thin as possible.  Let cook and break.

Read, "The Story of the Missing Cookie Jar" by PenVampyre.  A delightful little Christmas story with mouthwatering warm tasty recipes for the most wonderful time of the year!     Read "Santa and the Magic Key", plus recipes for your holidays.  A story by PenVampyre Easter eggs, bunnies and other stories. Read "Easter and Where NOT to Hide Eggs"  Memories of Easters past and a few vintage recipes. Logan's Halloween Story -The original story won first place in sixth-eighth grade division of Southeastern Middle School, 2005 by Logan Lyon.   Alas, no recipes.. Food and Genealogy A story By Robin L. Wallace.  Our lives, our families, our very history's are defined by the foods we eat. Family Reunion Recipes "The Fourth of July and Other Disasters" (With Apologies to Jean Shepherd) By Robin L. Wallace A short story by Suellen Fry.  Memories of my father and his version of Kickapoojoyjuice. Memorial Day Recipes - "For me, Memorial Day was the day when we went out where relatives were buried in the tiny, local cemeteries and thoroughly cleaned up each gravesite, carrying away branches that may have fallen in the winter.................." Grandma Irwin's Story of Courage and Swit Tater Biskits Recipe. Homemade Remedies Recipes - Recipes our grandparents used from a poultice, mustard plasters, gargles and paste. Thanksgiving Day Recipes and story from the past. College Foods and Other Mistakes.

Crispette Squares from the kitchen of C. Lamb circa 1950's Cream 1/4 cup Crisco and 1/2 cup brown sugar Sift together 1 cup flour, 1/8 tsp. salt, 1/4 tps nutmeg Cut into creamed mixture Press into 9" square (waxed paper lined) pan. Bake 15 minutes in 350 degree oven. Add 1 cup brown sugar to 2 well beaten eggs. Add 1/4 tsp salt, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 cup coconut, 1 1/2 cup rice crispies, 1/2 cup chopped nuts. Spread over baked layer and continue baking 24 minutes. Cut into squares while warm.

Candy and Cakes 1/2 cup shortening slowly add 1 cup sugar cream well add 1 egg heat 1 minute combine 3/4 cup butter mills and 1 tps vanilla add - alternately with flour mixture             2 cups flour             2 1/2 tbs baking powder             1/2 tbs salt Blend in 12 marshmallows that are cut into chunks 1/2 cup chocolate bits Spread in well grease pan = 9x16  Combine 1/4 cup brown sugar, 2 Tbs Butter, and 1/2 Cup Nuts Sprinkle this over the batter and bake in oven 350 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes. (I put 1/2 cups nuts in bottom of cake)  Cut in squares Written by B. Keck circa 1950's

Candy Canes - 260 Degrees 3/4 t. Peppermint flavoring 3/4 t. Red food coloring. Do Not Make on a damp day 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup light syrup 1/2 cup water 1/4 t cream of tarter Combine 4 ingredients above.  Cook over medium heat.  Dissolve sugar and mixture till mixture boils moderately. 260 degrees Cook without stirring until hard ball stage.  Pour 1/2 mixture on well oiled platter.   Add coloring to remaining 1/2 pan on second platter.  Pull as soon as mixture is cool enough to handle.  Takes 2 people to do this.  Form ropes twisting red around white.  Cut in 8" lengths.  Form canes and place on waxed paper to finish cooling.  You can use any combination of food coloring.

Apple Butter Pie Combine and beat thoroughly 1/2 cup sugar 3 Tbs. flour 1/2 cup Applebutter 3 Tbs melted butter 2 eggs 2 1/2 cup milk 1/2 tsp nutmeg Bake in unbaked pie shell 10 minutes at 450 degrees Then 40 minutes at 350 degrees.

Oatmeal Pie During baking the oatmeal forms a chewy, "nutty" crust on top.  This pie is rich and delicately spiced. Unbaked 9" pie shell 1/4 Cup butter or margarine 1/2 Cup sugar 1/2 tsp cinnmon 1/4 tsp cloves 1/4 tsp salt 1 Cup dark corn syrup 3 eggs 1 Cup quick cooking rolled oats Cream together butter and sugar.  Add in syrup. Add eggs, 1 at a time, stirring after each addition until blended. Stir in rolled oats. Pour into pie shell and bake at 350 degrees F. for 50 minutes or until knife inserted in center of pie comes out clean. Recipe found in old shoe box at yard sale.  Somehow shoes, feet, and food fixin recipes, in the same box, is a little funky.

Easy Steamed Christmas Pudding From Nova Wiedrick Cream 1/2c. butter, 1 1/2 c brown sugar. Add 2 beaten eggs, 1/4 c. milk, 2/3 c currants, 2/3 c. seeded raisins, 2/3 c. dates, 1 c. candied mixed fruit, 1c. raw chopped apples, 1/2 c. nuts. Shift together 1 tsp. soda, 1 tsp. salt, 1/4 tsp. allspice, 1/4 tsp. ginger, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon. Add to batter. Steam for 4 hours or bake as a cake at 350 for 1 hour.

Peanut Butter Creams Serves 30  Kristina makes these. 1/4 cup confection sugar 1 Cup Chocolate Chips 1/2 Cup Sweetened Condensed Milk 1 Cup Peanut Butter 1. Put the confectioners sugar in the bowl.  2. Add the chocolate chips.  3. add the milk. 4. Add the peanut butter.  5. Then stir everything together with the spoon.  6. Next drop pieces of candy onto the waxed paper.  7. Chill the candy for a short time.  Last, eat your candy!  Use sweetened condensed milk, not the evaporated milk.  You get about 30 small peanut butter creams.

Buttermilk Candy from the Journal Recipe Collection Makes 8 inch squares. 3 cups sugar 1 cup buttermilk or sour cream 1 teaspoon butter 1/2 cup white Karo 1 teaspoon soda 1/2 cup chopped nuts Mix first your ingredients in large (like Dutch oven) pan and bring to good rolling boil.  Remove from fire and add soda.  Replace on fire and cook slowly to soft boil stage.  Beat while hot. When creamy, add nuts and pour in BUTTERED pan.  Cut when set.  To make pralines, add 2 cups whole nuts and drop on waxed paper

Seafoam Candy 3 cups brown sugar, packed 3/4 cups water 1 tablespoon light corn syrup 2 egg whites Pinch of salt 1 teaspoons vanilla Combine sugar, water, and syrup.  Stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved.  Continue stirring until candy boils, then slowly place candy thermometer into syrup. Boil without stirring to 256 degrees (hard boiled stage). Beat egg whites and salt until stiff but not dry.  Add hot syrup gradually.  Continue beating until all syrup is used and until candy is very stiff and loses its gloss, 10 minutes with electric mixer.  Add vanilla.  Drop from buttered spoon onto waxed paper.  Candy freezes well.

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