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Brandy Slush
Ruth
Ingredients
Water
2 cups sugar
4 tea bags
12 oz orange juice
12 oz lime or lemon juice concentrate
2 1/2 cups brandy
Instructions
- In 7 cups of water, boil 2 cups of sugar
- In 2 cups of boiled water, put in 4 tea bags
- Let cool
- Mix in orange juice, lemon juice, and brandy
- Place in plastic containers and freeze
- Take 2 ice cream scoops of fizz, add glass of any pop - makes a delicious drink
Brigham's Fudge Sauce
L. Fellner
Ingredients
1 stick butter or margarine
5oz Baker's chocolate
1 lb or 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Melt butter, add chocolate, stir together, cooking over medium heat
- Gradually add sugar, & cook 8 minutes, stirring constantly, until it thickens
- Remove pan from heat - add vanilla, and cool
- Be sure to reheat to use - take the time, but can be used cold
- Be careful, this can be addictive!
Caramel Corn
Paul
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
4 Tbsp light corn syrup
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
4 Tbsp oil (for popcorn)
1/2 cup popcorn
Instructions
- Make popcorn
- Combine butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt in pan. Heat & mix constantly until butter is melted and sugar dissolved. Continue cooking for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally
- Add soda & stir until evenly coated, light & foamy. Add popcorn and stir. Place on waxed paper.
Chocolate Sauce for Ice Cream
Ingredients
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup milk
1 Tbsp cocoa
1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Boil this until syrupy
Fairy Food
Irene
Ingredients
1 cup sugar
1 cup karo dark syrup
1 Tbsp vinegar dark
1 Tbsp baking soda, rounded
Chocolate(?)
Instructions
- Cook sugar, karo syrup and vinegar together until real bubbly
- "Hard crack stage"
- Remove from heat, add baking soda - sprinkle on top and fold in 9x13 buttered pan
- Carefully, don't scrape kettle, just let it flow in - don't move pan until cool
- Blend up & cover with cho(colate?) & drop on wax paper
Gelatin Candy
Jane
Ingredients
4 cups sugar
4 packages gelatin
Red and green food coloring
Instructions
- Boil sugar in 1 1/2 cups water
- Dissolve gelatin in 1 cup cold water
- Combine sugar and gelatin mixtures and slowly boil for 15 minutes
- Divide into two parts
- Add green color & flavoring to one part, red to the other
- Let stand 12 hours, then turn onto sugared board and cut into squares
Peanut Brittle
Recipes
A selection of recipes Maude collected over the years