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My mom loved peanut brittle. While she really liked eating it, she seemed to get more joy from making it. She seemed to find delight every time the hot mixture would foam after baking soda was added. She also found satisfaction in breaking up the hardened slab into gifting or bite-size pieces. I still find […]
Cherry divinity fudge is indeed an old-fashioned, heavenly candy. While plain divinity is excellent, the addition of candied cherries (or other candied fruit) makes my favorite kind of divinity. I need to clarify that I do not think that divinity is fudge. My mom and grandmother would refer to some divinity as divinity fudge. I […]
Note: This article contains links to an affiliate account. If you click on the link and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission that will not affect your purchase price. This recipe is from my mom’s recipe box, but it is not a recipe that she ever made. She NEVER cooked with any wine, […]
We still have a lot of leftover Easter candy at my house. My daughter is VERY good about not eating too much candy. Plus, she did get a lot of candy between the Easter Bunny and the egg hunt at our church. When I found a bag of white Cadbury mini-eggs that I had bought […]
My great-aunt made the best caramels. Although she was not especially fond of cooking, she made a few things better than anyone else. Caramels were one of her specialties that no one else in the family made. It was always a treat to visit during the winter when she often had a supply of the […]
Having lived most of my life on the West Virginia side of the West Virginia-Ohio border I often heard jokes about the Buckeyes(Ohioans) being worthless nuts. Buckeye trees were common in the area, so I was also aware of making sure to distinguish between buckeyes and chestnuts when collecting nuts. However, my favorite reference to […]
One of the recipes I found stuffed in my mom’s recipe box was on notebook paper that I recognized as being from my paternal grandmother’s recipe binder. The handwriting did not quite look like my grandmother’s, but it was close enough that I assume it was either her or one of her sisters who wrote […]
Whoever first thought of putting red raspberries and chocolate together must have had divine inspiration. To me, there is not any better combination as raspberry goes so well with every version of chocolate from very dark to white. As Easter is just around the corner, I am back into the candy making. I seem to […]
My sister and brother-in-law make these delicious candies every year and often give them away in Christmas gifts. This year I was lucky enough to get to make them with my sister…..you should not expect any as gift this year as I brought most of them home with me (well, minus what we ate on […]
I am very far behind on my Christmas shopping, candy making, and baking this year. In fact, I just made my very first batch of candy (okay, I technically tried to make two others but learned the hard way that both of my candy thermometers were no longer even close to accurate). Thus, I decided […]
