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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

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