Post of; HOMEMADE CANDIES (no corn syrups allowed)

HONEY CANDIES: Here are some of my old correctable recipes for an occasional sweet tooth. When I do want candy it’s has to be without corn syrups and without aspartame, nutra sweet, and splenda, fructose all of which increase the appetite when blood sugars go higher than in our Great-grand-parents day when people were not so large. Here are some recipes to satisfy that tooth using honey.
I like to touch all the bases and keep “Millenniums Healthier Foods” well rounded. These are from my old blog. These are basically needed in anyone’s repertoire of recipes for survival during hard times. Also, because of their rarity, "cooking with honey," they should not be lost and preserved for our next our generation. The m e t h o d recipes are easy and so basic to any style of natural cooking. Honey is a natural, predigested enzyme. Thanks to the bees, honey comes with anti fungal, vitamins, and minerals. Try and find good candy without corn syrup or harsh chemicals today. Or, with awful corn and artificial sweeteners that makes you more hungry, putting on weight, never satisfies your cravings of sweets, in fact the more you eat the more you want to eat....
Old fashion candy making is gone. Just check the label of ingredients on packages of candy.
First: Be sure to use a candy Thermometer when using a honey. Candy recipe it cost too much to waste if it burns etc. Note in this way, you can switch from corn syrup recipes to honey, just add a little less honey can make it much sweeter, or cook it down.

Try adding orange, lemon, peppermint, cherry or other oil flavorings. How about chopped nutmeats or dried chopped fruit, peanut butter, coconuts, so many seeds (sesame) can be added in for fiber. We can make candies a more nutritious. In the way you want them for treats for your family needs.

Add thyme or other herbs to the horehound candy recipe, or lemon juice instead of all 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. Sugar's better than corn syrup, but don't get carried away. Look at candy labels to get more ideas. It’s all an art. Start with the basics and expand toward your preferences.
Horehound Candy
(I liked this as a kid, and the real homemade art of making it has been lost. It’s made of an herb that was used for coughs in the old days). Not to mention the fact you can sub. another herb or herbs here. How about lemon drops and change the sugar, just keep the same ratio? And so forth… The horehound candy today is made with corn syrup and very little of the herb horehound which I like the old flavor.
1 ounce dried horehound
1 ¾ pounds brown sugar
1 ½ cup water
Boil horehound and water for ½ hour. Strain it and add 3 ½ pounds of brown sugar. Boil until hardball stage. Pour onto a greased plate. When cool, cut into small pieces.

Honey Candy 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 if you wish and add some nutmeat or a variety of seeds, which are now in style.
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 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 2 cups honey
2 or 3 tbs. 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 done-ness, you can do what my mom did, and her mother; 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 the first press of dark molasses is very nutritious and loaded with minerals such as iron.
Molasses Candy
1 ½ cups molasses
¾ cup raw sugar
1 tbs. AC vinegar
1 tbs. butter
1/8 tsp. baking soda
1/8 tsp. sea salt
Combine molasses, sugar and vinegar and cook to a hardball stage. Add butter, soda, and salt. Remove from heat and stir until the soda is blended, then pour onto a greased cookies sheet or platter spray with Spam. When cooled, pull between greased fingertips until white and stiff. Break or cut into pieces. Wrap in wax paper.
Whole Wheat Candy What candy can you buy that provides you with natural fiber?
1-cup butter
1 ½ cups whole-wheat flour
nuts, coconut, sesame seeds
1-cup honey
1 cup organic peanut butter (other nut butter will give a different flavor)
Melt butter, honey and peanut butter. Add flour. Cook and stir a few minutes. Add in nuts coconut or sesame seeds another seed that is your favorite.
Honey Caramels 2 cups honey
1 can evaporated milk or heavy cream
3 tbs. butter
1 cup chopped nuts
Pinch of salt
1 tsp real vanilla
Mix honey and milk then cook until it forms a firm ball (255 degrees.) Stir in butter, nuts, and salt. Pour onto buttered dish. Cool and cut. Next recipe is a variation of this recipe
Almond Joy
1 cup powdered milk
1-cup coconut
½ cup honey
1 tsp. vanilla
¼ tsp salt
1 cup chopped almonds for topping
Chocolate
1 recipe of honey caramels
Mix honey, milk salt and vanilla together. Add coconut and press mixture in a small square pan. Add 1 cup chopped toasted almonds on top. Pour a layer of hot honey caramel over all the candy. Cool and cut into small squares (bars) and dip into chocolate.
Homemade Marsh mellows (Make them to add to rice crispy treats.)
I had looked for this recipe for a long time because I don’t like marshmallows made from corn syrups.
2 envelops plain gelatin
1 cup boiling water
Pinch of salt
4 tbls. Cold water
2 cups sugar
With ½ tsp. any flavored gelatin in bowl with 4 Tbs. water. Stir to soften. Add boiling water, sugar, salt, and flavoring. Vanilla can be used. Beat with mixer until thick. Approximate time 10-15 minutes or just before it peaks. Fill cake pans with 2-3 inches of flour, cornstarch, or powdered sugar. Cool and cut with scissors i.e., or make imprints with an egg molds filled with the marshmallow.
Candied Walnuts or any nut meat 1 tsp. cinnamon (or cinnamon oil)
1 cup raw sugar
½ cup canned milk
1 lb. Nuts (walnuts)
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup brown sugar (or about 3/4 cup honey boil it down)
4 tsp. water
Combine cinnamon, sugar, canned milk and water. Bring to a soft boil. Take from heat and add vanilla and stir in nuts to mixture, place on wax paper. Distribute the nuts coating them evenly. Let it stand for about 10 minutes and then break apart.
English Toffee 1 cup raw sugar or sugar
3 tbs. water
1 14 ounce chocolate bar (grated)
1-cup butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts
Cook sugar, water, butter, and vanilla together until it is bubbling and is nearly to hardball stage. Pour sugar mixture on foil fitted on a cookie sheet. Spread ½ of the grated chocolates over it and ½ the nuts. Turn foil over quickly onto another foil covered cookie sheet and cover with the remaining chocolate and nuts. Cook the crack with a knife to break into smaller pieces.
Fudge (Pudding style to make this fudge) Protein fudge (cheese or peanut butter is in another pg or post) 1-cup sugar
1 small packages chocolate pudding
½ cup evaporated milk
2 tbs. butter
Mix all together except butter. Cook until softball stage. Mix in butter and add nuts if desired. Pour into a buttered dish. Cool and cut into squares.
Caramel Honey Popcorn 1-cup honey
¼ cup margarine powder
2 cups sugar (or brown sugar)
Bring to a boil for 2 minutes. Pour over popped salted popcorn.
I like reading a variety of good blogs online because they educate and give us more suggestions and lead us to other informational sites. Try this one
http://www.dianaskitchen.com/ which lead me to even more interesting sites to visit.
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http://thefrugallyrichlife.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/homemade-cheetos-cheese-puffs-cheese-balls/
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How to Removing Heavy Metals from the body

The white pith in the peel of citrus has 35-45% pectin that removes heavy metals ingested via foods, dental amalgam (50% mercury in it) fillings, air and water. When you eat citrus next time, you can try remove only the outer layer, while leaving most of the white pith. This way, you get more phytonutrients and pectin to detox naturally. Today these seeds from apple pectin grapefruit comes in pill form. All organically grown seeds have strong healing properties.t  Apple pectin (cancer?) and takes lead, so does grapefruit and other
seeds take out heavy metals.  Here are some herbals. (Don't throw away and do research on how to use them. Go back to eating organically homemade jams with less sugars. Do you have grandma's recipe for aprocot pit jam? Can find it, so please share.
Pectin is a type of viscous dietary fiber that reduces the glycemic response of foods delaying gastric emptying and therefore delaying absorption of glucose by the body. Pectin also plays a role in normalizing blood lipid levels, especially cholesterol.
Thousands of papers (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18242837) have been published about using citrus peels to purify wastewater from heavy metals contamination. We get lots of heavy metals from water and even air - due to coal fired plants mercury-cadmium-arsenic air pollution traveling from China to other countries, China being number 1 coal user. Many root vegetables from China (where soil is very rich is heavy metals) that are sold as fresh produce all over the world (ginger for example) have high heavy metals. In 2013 California sued (http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23366231/lead-tainted-ginger-case-state-sues-trader-joes) some grocery chains for selling Chinese ginger candies with 7 times above safe level in lead. China is weak when it comes to enforcing environmental regulations still. That's why it's best to try to detox naturally by eating more pectin from fruits that have pectin. You never know how much Lead your diet has today, since you don't measure blood heavy metals level every month.


Strawberries were found to have insoluble fiber that removes 95% of mercury and apples and bananas have pectin too, helping with heavy metal detox. These are very easy ways to detox without having to add pectin powder to your diet (you can buy pectin from the supermarket).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectin has more on pectin. Pectin is a bio polymer of (among other constituents) D-galacturonic acid.


Typical levels of pectin in plants are (fresh weight):

apples, 1–1.5%

apricots, 1%

cherries, 0.4%

oranges, 0.5–3.5%

carrots approx. 1.4%

►►► citrus peels, 30%, white pith of the peels 35-45% ◄◄◄

Among vegetables, carrots contain one of the highest pectin contents with 0.576 gram per large carrot. Tomatoes and potatoes are also high in pectin. One medium tomato contains 0.369 gram of pectin, while a medium white potato contains 0.639 gram. Peas contain one of the highest pectin concentrations among legumes with 0.96 gram per 1-cup serving.

It costs us nothing to eat more white pith that we would normally trash anyway. :) If you want to detox faster, you can eat more cilantro too.

PS: many cities use chemtrails to generate rain, and chemtrails are known to have heavy metals too. Even ginkgo biloba Chinese herb was found to have high Lead sometimes and even some organic superfoods or protein mixes were found to have heavy metals 100 times higher than fruits. So, one has to be careful, because unless you have a lab to detect metals in food, you don't know how much heavy metal intake you got. Just because something is sold by Whole Foods doesn't mean it cannot be loaded with heavy metals.



Its easier to show heavy metal if you view the spots (on top of) the color of the iris. It shows a map of where they've lodged in the body. Different hues relate the type of metal.



Moist Banana Bread (Yogurt)

Banana Yogurt Bread Recipe

This Banana Yogurt Bread is a very moist and delicious banana bread. Using yogurt in the recipe allows you to cut back on butter. Very easy-to-make for your family. (add nuts, choc chips, raisins, currents, etc. about two handfuls or more or less according to tastes) see simple banana bread and see my pins at: https://www.pinterest.com/toughertimes/baking-it/ Banana Yogurt Bread Banana Yogurt Bread Recipe:  Recipe Type: Quick Bread, Bananas  Yields: 1 loaf  Prep time: 20 min  Cook time: 55-60 min I like to take out a bit early and let it bake in the pan. Ingredients: 2 very ripe bananas, mashed (preferably overripe)* 1 cup finely-chopped pecans (or your favorite nuts)  1/4 cup butter or margarine, room temperature (coconut butter) 2/3 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs 1 cup (8 ounces) vanilla or plain yogurt** 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract or, banana/almond extract 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup whole-wheat flour, (coconut or almond flour) 3/4 teaspoon sea salt 1/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda * To ripen bananas, allow green or yellow bananas to ripen at room temperature until the skin is covered with brown spots. Use a potato masher, fork, or spoon to mash the bananas, leaving no chunks of banana.  ** I only had a 6-ounce container of vanilla yogurt, so I added 2 ounces of sour cream for make the 1 cup (8 ounce) total. You could also use any flavor or yogurt that you desire. Preparation: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Adjust oven rack to lower middle position. Grease one (1) 9x5-inch loaf pan (grease bottom only of regular loaf pan or grease and flour bottom and sides on a non-stick loaf pan). Also see Optional Variation below. In a bowl, combined the mashed bananas and chopped walnuts or pecans; set aside. In the big bowl, especially if your doing a double batch, of your electric mixer, cream butter or margarine and sugar just until mixture is light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in yogurt and vanilla extract until combined. Remove bowl from your electric mixer and stir in the all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda until dry ingredients are moistened. Fold in the bananas and pecans. NOTE: Bake all quick breads as soon as the ingredients are assembled. Since high temperature are often called for, it is best to bake them in the center of the oven, as the heat in the top third of the oven will be too intense. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake 55 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick or a dry spaghetti and inserted in the center comes out clean. A good check is to use an instant digital thermometer to test your bread. The  internal temperature of the bread should be at 200 degrees F.  When done. Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan. Cool completely before slicing. Storage: Breads that contain fruit, nuts, or butter may be stored for 2 or 3 days, well wrapped in plastic wrap or aluminum foil. May be frozen for longer storage. After thawing frozen breads, reheat them in a 400 degree F. oven for a few minutes before serving.  Makes one (1) loaf. Optional Variation: In a small bowl combine 2 tablespoons granulated sugar and 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon. Dust greased loaf pans with the mixture instead of flour before adding the banana bread batter. I like cream cheese or peanut butter on a slice   Additional Banana Bread Recipes: Banana Nut Bread  There is a saying about lemons; “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. Well maybe there should be one for bananas as well - when life gives you overripe bananas, make banana bread! At least that is what I do. Banana Oatmeal Yogurt Bread  I combined a couple of my Banana Bread recipes to create this delicious and healthy loaf of banana bread. The use of yogurt in the recipe allows you to cut back on butter. This bread is slightly heavier and denser than other banana breads. Great for breakfast! Banana Pineapple Bread  This is a very moist and delicious tropical tasting banana bread. Very easy-to-make for your family. I made this bread a week ago and it was still moist and tasty. Banana Pistachio Yogurt Bread  This Banana Pistachio Yogurt Bread is very moist and very delicious. I love pistachios, so I though why not make bread using them. This bread is as addictive as eating pistachios! The use of yogurt in the recipe allows you to cut back on butter or oil in your diet.  Banana Yogurt Bread  This is a very moist and delicious banana bread. The use of yogurt in the recipe allows you to cut back on butter. Very easy-to-make for your family. Blueberry Pecan Banana Bread  Whether you enjoy a slice as a snack or for breakfast, this Blueberry Pecan Banana Bread is so flavorful, you won't need any butter. Raspberry Chocolate Banana Bread  This is a family banana bread recipe that I modified reducing the amount of butter with a substitution of non-fat Greek yogurt. Yogurt also is a replacement of buttermilk. A substitute is milk and tbs of vinegar.  I also added the fresh raspberries and chocolate chips for an amazing flavor combination. It is very easy to make and so ridiculously delicious!  Sourdough Banana Bread   Sourdough Banana Zucchini Bread  I adapted my Sourdough Banana Bread recipe and added shredded zucchini squash to the recipe. This bread recipe is perfect as the bread is so so easy-to-make and delicious!  Chocolate Banana Bread 2 cups flour 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup soften butter 2 eggs, lightly beaten 2-3 medium very ripe bananas, mashed to equal 1 C 1 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 cup milk 1/4 cup milk chocolate chips Directions: http://southernkrazed.com/2015/03/chocolate-banana-bread-recipe/

Tell Kraft To Stop Using Dangerous Food Dyes in Our Mac

The better brand of Kraft's with no preservative goes to the UK i.e. because some of the chemicals are against the law there. We believe in poisoning our kids. However Kraft's said when they put out samples in stores for US moms to buy they didn't sale. Why? Education level then about chemicals and what they do to young growing children body's. It causes tumors and the dye in anything is poisonous. They ones that will buy this product doesn't have kids. Let them suffer with their rewards of tumor.

https://youtu.be/0lWQFKbI0dg

A commenter:

Just buy elbow macaroni and a big brick of cheddar cheese without the chemicals (Tillamook a Oregon base dairy who doesn't use antibiotics and hormones or grass feed cows i.e.) Then, make your own. you see how fast those phony Kosher idiots at Kraft Foods get the hint, but as long as people just complain and keep buying there poison and feeding it to there kids Nothing will change, Europeans communicate and they know who the boss are, they stopped buying it and sales went down, Write KRAFT. People let Kraft know who the boss is, Us the consumer and not Kraft, there are nothing without us..............

Estrogen Mixes Up Sexuality & Cancer Causing

Estrogen's in plastic's, at an alarming rate is a big problem as it (mimics, BPA's and Glyphosate, mixes up sexuality's, breast cancer i.e. Watch container you get or put foods and water in. All this is killing women. https://youtu.be/cEZvEQInSQ0  It's in the soil and you can't wash it off your vegetables. ng Poisoning of our foods, environment, human and all forms of life.


http://toughertimestoday.blogspot.com/2015/06/homemade-wild-yam-cream-estrogens.html
Don't drink the water, it's surprising any one can get pregnant as the largest chemical dumped into our seas is estrogens from chemical birth control pills. It's fish are confused: do I lay the egg or use sperm which they males can no longer produce. Then add in our plastic glasses instead of glass for serving our beverages. This is a very informational video. Sex changes, no wonder ...




 Why?
Natural forma of estrogen  ( Dr, David Christopher in Springville Utah has a wonderful mend female male formula.
http://shermsorganicnews.blogspot.com/2010/12/yeast-infection-remedies.html
http://shermsorganicnews.blogspot.com/2010/12/ginseng-male-testosterone.html
•Black or Blue Cohosh *Black Cohosh (Most will known, if take too much a headache will accrue. Adjust, cut back, but faithfully use as your replacement hormone drug every day. (Estrogen influences 16 mg daily for some, depends on weight and condition of female. Some are lacking in estrogen's and may need more or even less.) Fibromyalgia muscle pain, this and Emmenagogue herbs effect the nervous system. (They also will be calming) Their are many more...but, here's a few more popular one you maybe familiar with.
•Rue
•Mother Wort
•Rag Wort
•Squaw Vine
•Southern wood
•*Wild Yam (Book available on birth control in HFS) This is an herb largely researched by Washington who made his wife pill for her female problems then turned around and manufactured it to pharmacy company's synthetically.
http://shermsorganicnews.blogspot.com/2008/11/female-and-male-fertility-page.html