Grandma’s Homegrown Candy Recipes
By David Jones
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With over 550 pages of authentic, homegrown Candy Recipes
This book has the BEST selection of Candy Recipes made by the most SIMPLEST of Methods.
You’ve never tried?
You’ve never had?
You should try my grandma’s!
Here is a selection of my Grandma’s best Candy Recipes. They are so simple to make, as back in her day she didn’t have the technology and gadgets we have now.
I think it is important that we realise, we have all heard of Television chefs like Gordon Ramsey or Jamie Oliver, who bring cooking styles which are commercialised and of mass appeal.
More importantly, they rarely discuss the true roots of their culinary dishes and certainly never refer back to the most traditional dishes, created not by a famous television chef, but by some not so well known.
Grandma!
If I was going to liken her cooking style and finesse to anyone then it would be to the likes of Mary Berry.
When I was just three years old, I have fond recollections and memories of standing next to my ‘nana’ in her compact kitchen in fact it, the kitchen was so small, you could barely move. One half of the space was occupied by a small gas stove and opposite that was the sink with a window above looking out onto the street and next to this was a large wooden, built-in larder, which when (I thought) she wasn’t looking I could climb into or up.
All my fondest memories came from the aromas and flavours generated in this one tiny room.
My grandmother loved to cook and bake, the earliest memory I have of her kitchen is when I was 3 and baking chocolate chip cookies with her. It was so much fun and I still love watching cookies melt down in the oven, changing from little drops of dough, into actual cookies! Nana also used to make bread all the time; I can still remember the wonderful smell of bread fresh out of the oven.
Nana’s food, particularly her Candies were so beautiful to smell and even more gorgeous to taste.
I wanted everyone to come and try my Grandma’s Candies. But, back then that was not practical!
Now, thanks to technology, I have taken her hand written and home grown recipes and made them available to everyone as a permanent token of gratitude to a wonderful lady and an even better Candy cook!
I hope you enjoy them and please leave me comments on your favorites.
David Jones
It's David, but everyone calls me DJ. I write novels, short stories, flash fiction, poems, and scripts for the radio, too. I have a short film in the works, so I'm looking forward to getting a bit of directing in there, too. Music is my other big "thing," I'm into rock and most things with guitar, and I enjoy making a bit of that too. I have just completed an honours degree in English Literature and Language at the University of Liverpool, and will be studying for an MA in Renaissance and Eighteenth Century Literature next year. I have previously written a number of short stories and poems which have won competitions in writing magazines, as well as being featured in literary anthologies. My creative writing blog on tumblr is currently featured in the Writer's Spotlight, a directory for the top writing blogs on the website.
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Grandma’s Homegrown Candy Recipes - David Jones
Dedication
I dedicate my book to my wonderful ‘nana’, Francesca.
Every day, I still smell the first cookies we made together.
Every day, I remember how life is missing you and all the wonderful things you bought to it.
Your recipes are released on Amazon, but I hope you can read them in Heaven.
Forever my inspiration, forever my mentor, forever in my thoughts,
Remembering you and loving you always.
Mika
x x x
Preface
With over 550 pages of authentic, homegrown Candy Recipes
This book has the BEST selection of Candy Recipes made by the most SIMPLEST of Methods.
You’ve never tried?
You’ve never had?
You should try my grandma’s!
Here is a selection of my Grandma’s best Candy Recipes. They are so simple to make, as back in her day she didn’t have the technology and gadgets we have now.
I think it is important that we realize, we have all heard of Television chefs like Gordon Ramsey or Jamie Oliver, who bring cooking styles which are commercialized and of mass appeal.
More importantly, they rarely discuss the true roots of their culinary dishes and certainly never refer back to the most traditional dishes, created not by a famous television chef, but by some not so well known.
Grandma!
If I was going to liken her cooking style and finesse to anyone then it would be to the likes of Mary Berry.
When I was just three years old, I have fond recollections and memories of standing next to my ‘nana’ in her compact kitchen in fact it, the kitchen was so small, you could barely move. One half of the space was occupied by a small gas stove and opposite that was the sink with a window above looking out onto the street and next to this was a large wooden, built-in larder, which when (I thought) she wasn’t looking I could climb into or up.
All my fondest memories came from the aromas and flavors generated in this one tiny room.
My grandmother loved to cook and bake, the earliest memory I have of her kitchen is when I was 3 and baking chocolate chip cookies with her. It was so much fun and I still love watching cookies melt down in the oven, changing from little drops of dough, into actual cookies! Nana also used to make bread all the time; I can still remember the wonderful smell of bread fresh out of the oven.
Nana’s food, particularly her Candies were so beautiful to smell and even more gorgeous to taste.
I wanted everyone to come and try my Grandma’s Candies. But, back then that was not practical!
Now, thanks to technology, I have taken her hand written and home grown recipes and made them available to everyone as a permanent token of gratitude to a wonderful lady and an even better Candy cook!
I hope you enjoy them and please leave me comments on your favorites.
Table of Contents
DEDICATION
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1: CANDY BARS
Almond Chocolate Coconut Cookies I
Almond Chocolate Coconut Cookies II
Almond Coconut Chocolate Cookie Balls
Babe Ruth Baseball Bars
Candy Bar Bars
Cashew Caramel Bars
Choco Coconut Bars
Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares
Double Chocolate Crumble Bars
Famous Peanut Caramel Candy Bars
Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
Kit Kat® Bars
Peanut Butter Candy Bars
Peanut Butter Cup Bars
Peanut Butter Cups
Planet Mars Almond Bars
The Ultimate Chocolate Bar
CHAPTER 2: CHEWY CANDIES
Christmas Wreaths
Candy Strawberries
Edible Spiders
Ga Ga Clusters
Gumdrop Tasty Chewies
Homemade Marshmallows
Homemade Marshmallows II
Honey Nutters
Mohn Candy
Old Time Taffy
Skillet Cookies I
Skillet Cookies II
Stained Glass Candy
CHAPTER 3: CHOCOLATE
Angel Candy
Basic Truffles
Bavarian Mints
Bavarian Mints II
Best Toffee Ever
Bon Bons
Brigadeiro
Buckeye Balls
Buckeye Balls II
Cappuccino Caramels Royale
Caramel Peanut Fudge
Cherry Blossom Fudge
Chewy Chocolate Candies
Chinese New Year Chocolate Candy
Chocolate Almond Bark
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Dipped Apples
Chocolate Brittle Surprise
Chocolate Caramel Candy
Chocolate Covered Blueberries
Chocolate Covered Cherries
Chocolate Covered Peppermint Patties
Chocolate Covered Potato Chips
Chocolate Delight
Chocolate Marshmallow Candy
Chocolate Orange Truffles
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Chocolate Peppermint Wafers
Chocolate Truffles
Chow Clusters
Christmas Kiss Candies
Christmas Turtle Candies
Cookie Balls
Cow Pies
Cracker Candy
Crème de Pirouline
Double Chocolate Mocha Trifle
Double Peanut Truffles
Easy Decadent Truffles
Easy Toffee
Fairy Food
Famous Caramel Cookie Bars
Famous Coconut-Almond Balls
Fool-Proof Chocolate-Orange Treasure Truffles
Fudge Bonbons
Fudge Puddles
Funky Frito Fruckies
Great Microwave Fudge
Great Raspberry Truffles
Gourmet Pretzel Rods
Grandma's Christmas Candy
Hazelnut Toffee Crunch
Hockey Pucks
Luscious Chocolate Truffles
Marble Nut Clusters
Martha Washington Candies
Melt In Your Mouth Toffee
Milk Chocolate Popcorn
Oodle Kadoodles
OREO® Caramel Clusters
Oreo™ Cookie Bark
Peanut Clusters
Peanut Clusters II
Peppermint Creams
Peppermint Patties
Pioneer Potato Candy
Plastic Chocolate
Reese's® Peanut Butter and Milk Chocolate Chip Clusters
Rich Chocolate Pumpkin Truffles
Rocky Road Candy
Rocky Road Drops
Rum Truffles
Select-Your-Own Chocolate Truffles
Special Dark® Fudge Truffles
Stained Glass Candy II
Sweet Pretzel Stacks
Toasted Almond Truffles
Toffee I
Toffee II
Turtle Candy
Ultimate Valentine's Day Chocolate Truffle
White Chocolate Covered Pretzels
CHAPTER 4: FUDGE
Autumn Creamy Chocolate Fudge
Baked Fudge
Best Ever Fudge
Cheery Cherry Almond-Topped Fudge
Chocolate Fudge
Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge
Chocolate Walnut Fudge
Chocolate-Almond Fudge
Country House Fudge
Creamy Guilt-Free Fudge
Double Flavor Fudge
Double-Decker Fudge
Duo-Chocolate Fudge
Easy Nutty Fudge Cups
Elegant Family Fudge
Extra Easy Fudge
Festive Fudge
Foolproof Chocolate Fudge
Fudge
German Chocolate Fudge
Grandma’s Scrummy Fudge
Holiday Fudge
Homemade Yummy Fudge
Irish Cream Truffle Fudge
Joy's Fudge
Maple Oat Fudge Squares
Martian's Fudge
Million Dollar Fudge
Mint Chocolate Fudge
Never-Never Ever-Ever Fail Fudge
No Fail Chocolate Fudge
No Fail Fudge
Old Fashioned Fudge
Old-Fashioned Chocolate Fudge
Old-Fashioned Fudge
One Two Three Fudge
Peanut Choc-Scotch Fudge
Pudding Fudge
Raspberry Truffle Fudge
Red and White Fudge
Reese's® Peanut Butter and Milk Chocolate Chip Fudge
Remarkable Fudge
Rich Cocoa Fudge
Sunday School Fudge
Tiger Butter I
Tiger Butter II
White Chocolate Fudge
Best Ever Cheese Fudge
No-Cook Never-Fail Fudge
Spicy Pumpkin Fudge
Creamy Orange Fudge
Strawberry Fudge
Pumpkin Fudge
Easy Creamy Vanilla Fudge
Butterscotch Fudge
Crazy Peanut Butter Fudge
Creamy Peanut Butter Fudge
Easiest Peanut Butter Fudge
Easy Peanut Butter Fudge
Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Fudge
Gramma's Easy Peanut Butter Fudge
Grandma's Peanut Butter Fudge
Peanut Butter Fudge I
Peanut Butter Fudge a
Peanut Butter Fudge b
Peanut Butter Fudge c
Peanut Butter Fudge II
Peanut Butter Fudge III
Peanut Butter Fudge IV
Peanut Butter Fudge V
Super Dooper Peanut Butter
Pumpkin Fudge II
Candy Cane Fudge
Carnation® Famous Fudge
Chocolate Snow Swirl Fudge
Chocolate Sour Cream Fudge
Christmas Maple Fudge
Honey Nut White Fudge
Maple Walnut Fudge
Peanutty Chocolate Fudge
Peppermint Chocolate Fudge
Super-Easy Rocky Road Fudge
White Christmas Jewel Fudge
World's Best Peanut Butter Fudge
CHAPTER 5: HARD CANDIES
Almond Buttercrunch
Almond Buttercrunch Candy II
Almond Crunch
Christmas Crunch
Crunchy Munchies
Hard Rock Candy
Homemade Buttercrunch Candy
Mock Peanut Brittle
Old Fashioned Hard Candy
Peppermint Brittle
Peppermint Stick Dessert
Stained Glass Candy I
Cream Cheese Mints
Grandmama Pampas' Old-Fashion Pull Mints
Mackie's Cream Cheese Mints
Mint Patties
My Grandma's Mint Patties
Party Mints
Peppermint Pink Valentine Mold
CHAPTER 6: ALL THE REST
Swedish Nuts I
Almond Buttercrunch Candy I
Cinnamon-Roasted Almonds
Eggnog Fudge
Glazed Nuts
Marzipan
Marzipan Candy
Orange Fudge
Coconut Brittle
Coconut Candies
Coconut Ice
Coconut Jays
Macadamia Clusters
Candy Coated Pecans
Cinnamon Toffee Bars
Crispy Peanut Butter Candy Delight
Easy 1000 Watt Microwave Pralines
Fantasy Divinity
Panocha Fudge
Pecan Fondant Logs
Pecan Pralines
Penuche
Penuchi
Swedish Nuts II
Texas Pralines
Yummy Pecan Pralines
Candied Walnuts
Candy Turkeys
Caramels
Festive Holiday Bark
Grandma's Irish Potatoes
Puppy Chow
Grandma's Popcorn Balls
Kettle Corn
Old Time Popcorn Balls
Popcorn Cake I
Popcorn Cake II
Potato Candy
RESOURCE PAGE
Chapter 1: Candy Bars
I have fond memories of grandma visiting my folks house on a weekend and either cooking up some candy bars in my folks kitchen or bringing along some freshly baked.
As a child you can only imagine what a pleasure it was to go to bed with the smell of fresh baked Candy bars, gently wafting me to sleep.
As a child I wasn’t poor, my Ma and Pa worked and were well respected in our community. So, we never needed for anything.
Yet, strangely I don’t ever recollect visiting a sweet store or grocer’s store and asking for any candy bars.
Now in hindsight I recall how much my Nana baked for us and in every lunch pack on every day at School, I had another of my Grandma’s gems inside.
It wasn’t actually a school lunch, it was like unwrapping a Christmas present every day.
Never knowing what’s inside, never knowing what it actually was going to be. Sure I could see it was a square a cup or a bar, but I wouldn’t really know what it was until I took the first bite.
All I did know is that every time I unwrapped my lunch, whatever gem Nana had included was going to be the best thing I ate that day, the best present on that day.
The other kid were envious, they all knew what their presents in their lunch packs were, they had the wrappers on and equally disappointing for them was they knew what it would taste like as they had eaten them before. But each and every bite I took on each and every day was something special.
It wasn’t à la carte or refined dining but it was my first early introduction into the blessings of homegrown food.
Almond Chocolate Coconut Cookies I
"A wonderfully light cookie with the taste of an Almond Joy candy bar."
Makes: 4 dozen.
INGREDIENTS:
4 egg whites
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups flaked coconut
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup toasted and chopped almonds
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DIRECTIONS:
Beat egg whites until stiff. Add sugar and vanilla gradually. Add coconut and flour; mix well.
Stir in chocolate chips and almonds; drop by teaspoonfuls onto lightly greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 15 minutes. Remove and cool.
Almond Chocolate Coconut Cookies II
"You can improve on perfection and these are so easy to make and are extremely delicious."
Makes: 4 dozen.
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
4 eggs
4 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
5 cups semisweet chocolate chips
2 cups flaked coconut
2 cups chopped almonds
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DIRECTIONS:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt, stir into the creamed mixture until well blended. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips, coconut and almonds. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
Almond Coconut Chocolate Cookie Balls
"These are almost exactly like the very popular candy bar."
Makes: 3 to 4 dozen.
INGREDIENTS:
2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
3 cups flaked coconut
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
1 cup whole almonds
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DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In the top half a double boiler melt the chocolate and condensed milk, stirring frequently.
Pour the melted chocolate mixture over the coconut. Stir in the vanilla and salt. Mix well until the coconut is completely coated. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto