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.
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