HONEY CANDIES (homemade)

HONEY CANDIES: Here are some old collected recipes for the occasional sweet tooth when I do want candy it’s without corn syrups to say the least without aspartame, nutra sweet, and splenda, fructose all of which increase the appetite and are addicting! Here are some to satisfy that tooth using honey.
Heirloom: I like to touch all the bases and keep the new “Millenniums for healthier foods.” These are basically needed in anyone’s repertoire for survival during hard times. Also, because of their rarity cooking with honey should not be lost to our next our generation. The recipe is easy and so basic to any style of natural cooking. Honey is a natural, predigested enzyme, thanks to the bees, and comes with anti fungal, vitamins, and minerals. Try and find good candy without corn syrup or harsh chemicals today. With sweeteners that makes you hungrier, putting on weight never satisfying any sweet craving and raising blood sugars much higher than sugar. Old fashion candy making is gone art but is coming back. Just check the ingredients on packages of candy in our markets that you feed to your children.
Be sure to use a candy Thermometer when using a honey candy recipe it cost too much to waste. Also note you can switch from corn syrup recipes to honey, just add a little less honey it much sweeter.
Try adding orange, lemon, peppermint, cherry or other flavorings. How about chopped nutmeats or dried chopped fruit, peanut butter, coconuts, so many seeds can be added for fiber, i.e. lets make candies a more nutritious and in anyway you want them for a treat for the family. Add herbs such as; thyme or horehound incorporating in hard candy recipes. Or, lemon juice instead of the water called for in the recipe converting some to candies medicines. Why not? Keep them healthy by buying raw sugars in a health section of your groceries or health food stores. Look at their labels and get ideas. It’s all an art. Start with some basics and expand your preferences.
Honey Candy
Rarity...where can you buy honey candy with out corn syrups and chemical sugars these days? Candies are now poisons to our children. We were all doing better on just plain bleached sugars, and health was better then. However, the best thing about making it at home is you can sub raw sugar here if you wish and add some nutmeat or add variety of seeds,(sesame) which are now back in style.
Ingredients;
2 cups honey
1-cup cream
1-cup raw sugar
Combine and cook slowly until it reaches hardball stage when tested in cold water. Pour onto a buttered platter. When cool enough to handle, butter hands and pull until a golden color appears. Pull into long ropes and cut into pieces and wrap.
Old Fashioned Hardtack
Ingredients;
2 cups sugar
¾ cup of honey
½ tsp. flavoring such as cinnamon, peppermint etc.
1-cup water
Mix and cook to 270 degrees, or hard brittle stage with threads in the water. Remove from the heat and add natural food color as desired. Pour onto a buttered dish and cool. Break into pieces and roll in powdered sugar if desired.
Honey Taffy
Ingredients;
2 cups honey
2 or 3 tbs. organic butter
1 tsp. real vanilla
Combine the preceding ingredients in a 4-quart saucepan. Carefully bring honey to a boil. Boil on medium high heat, stirring occasionally. Cook to a firm ball stage. To test for doneness, drop a few drops of the hot mixture into a cup of cold water. When it forms a firm ball, remove hot mixture from heat. (Be careful not to overcook it or burn it.)
Add 1 tsp. vanilla to hot mixture. Pour onto a buttered tray to cool. But just barely enough so that it won’t burn your fingers when you pull it. Pull it till it’s very light and porous. Twist into a long rope. Lie on a buttered tray and put in refrigerator to cool. When cool, crack into pieces by hitting it with a table knife or such...Taffy will sweat and get stick if left out at room temperature. Cover and keep in refrigerator.
Don’t forget molasses is very nutritious and loaded with minerals.
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