Homemade Holiday Sweets
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CHRISTMAS CANDY made from popcorn is decorative.
By CHARLOTTE ADAMS
Associated Press Food Editor
Candy, this holiday season, is
hard to come by, due to the sugar
shortage, but there are certain
simple confections you can make
at home and be sure that the tra
dition of sweets for Christmas is
upheld.
Let’s begin with popcorn, which
is as traditional as can be.
Popcorn Prizes
lx/z cups sugar
Vfe cup corn syrup
3 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon vinegar
Combine sugar, syrup, butter
and vinegar. Stir carefully over
low heat until sugar i« melted.
Then increase the heat and cook
without stirring until syrup forms
a soft ball in cold water. Add
candy coloring—red, green or yel
low—if desired. Pour syrup* over
eight to ten cups of popped or
puffed cereal. Cool until able to
handle. Grease the hands with a
little butter, then dip them from
time to time in cold water. Shape
these into balls of two sizes. Put
together with toothpicks. Stick
raisins into place for eyes and
use raisins or nuts for a nose and
mouth. If you wish to make these
little figures into snowmen, make
an uncooked frosting by blending
a cup of powdered sugar with two
tablespoons of butter and adding
milk until you reach a consistency
to spread. Dip the balls into this
mixture or spread it over the
balls.
And here are some more Christ
mas candy possibilities.
Nut Crunch
1 cup sugar
Va cup water
1/3 cup butter
Va cup old fashioned molasses
1 cup nut meats
Measure sugar, water, butter
and molasses into a heavy sauce
pan. Stir gently over a low flame
until the sugar is melted. Turn
heat higher and continue to cook
until a drop tested in cold water
is brittle, 300°. Add the nut meats,
broken coarsely, and continue to
cook for another minute or two at
315°. Pour out onto greased plat
ter. Mark into squares and break
when cool. This makes a fine
candy for little individual cups at
the table or for gift boxes for
friends.
Chocolate Nut Crunch
Follow recipe above adding half
the quantity of nuts. Just before
pouring syrup into the greased
plate or pan, add a half cup of
semi-sweet chocolate bits.
Spiced Pecans
Vz pound pecans
1 cup fine granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon ginger
Vz tablespoon ground clove
Vz teaspoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon water
1 egg white
Freshen nuts by heating them a
few minutes in the oven. Sift
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sugar, salt and spices together
three times. Add water to egg
white and beat slightly. Mix nuts
into egg white and shake in sugar
spice mixture. Spread out on well
greased wrapping paper or baking
tin. Bake at 250° about 20 min
utes. Remove from oven and
shake excess sugar from nuts.
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