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St. Patrick's Day Molasses Candy with Dot O'Brien and Lara Maynard
Wearing green, parades and special masses are part of traditional St. Patrick’s celebrations in Newfoundland and Labrador. This video features a sweet tradition that may not be as familiar.
Dot O’Brien of Cape Broyle walks Lara Maynard of Heritage NL through the St. Patrick’s Day tradition of making molasses candy. Dot learned to make molasses candy with her grandmother and was in charge of finding fresh snow to cool the candy.
St. Patrick’s Day falls within Lent and many Christians practice fasting and forego things like sweets, rich foods, and alcohol during this period. Dot explained that St. Patrick's Day was seen as a free day or cheat day to celebrate the Patron Saint of Ireland and indulge in some sweets.
Let us know your communities' St. Patrick's Day traditions, or try your hand at making these sweet and buttery molasses candy!
Molasses Taffy Recipe (also known as candy) from Crosby's Molasses Family Favourites, page 71:
1/2 cup Fancy Molasses
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 tbsp vinegar
1/2 cup water
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
4 tbsp butter
1/8 tsp baking soda
Place Fancy Molasses, sugar, vinegar and water in a heavy saucepan and cook until a small amount tried in cold water is brittle (256*F). Remove from heat and add butter, cream of tartar and baking soda. Pour into a buttered pan. When cool enough to handle pull until light in color. Butter the hands before pulling. Twist. Cut into one inch pieces, wrap in waxed paper.
*Notes:
-Use a large saucepan. We switched to a larger saucepan during our candy making as the molasses started to boil over.
-We cooled the candy by laying the pan in a patch of fresh snow to speed the cooling process. You can simply let the candy cool until it is workable. Snow not required.
-For a harder candy, the mixture can be stretched for a longer amount of time.
-Once the candy has cooled store in refrigerator or cool place if you don't eat them all first.
Grandma's Recipes for Mother and Daughter 3 (END)
Published by the American Molasses Company, this collection of recipes features molasses for all types of cooking including meats, vegetables, cakes, cookies, pies, gingerbread, frostings, sauces, beverages and easy-to-make recipes for young cooks.
Grandma's Recipes for Mother and Daughter by American Molasses Company | Full Audio Book
Grandma's Recipes for Mother and Daughter by American Molasses Company
Genre(s): Cooking
Read by: Larry Wilson, Robin Lee, BettyB, Veronica Maresh Mead, TR Love in English
Cover design by TriciaG.
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Molasses
00:04:29 - 02 - Meats and Vegetables
00:13:56 - 03 - Cakes
00:23:07 - 04 - Toppings, Frostings and Sauces
00:27:58 - 05 - Cookies
00:39:51 - 06 - Pies
00:50:36 - 07 - Desserts
00:59:34 - 08 - Gingerbreads, Bread
01:11:30 - 09 - Beverages, Spreads , French Dressing
01:14:11 - 10 - Easy-To-Make Recipes for Young Cooks
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Old-Fashion Peanut Butter Candy Recipe
Here is a quick no cooking required Peanut Butter Candy Recipe made with just 3 ingredients: Creamy Peanut Butter, Powdered Sugar, and Milk. This peanut butter sugar candy was a real treat for me when I was a kid, and it still feels like a treat 50 years later.
The complete candy recipe instructions can be found at this link
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What You Need for This Sugar Candy
POWDERED SUGAR ...also called confectioners' sugar
creamy PEANUT BUTTER
MILK or half and half
How to make this Peanut Butter Candy
This recipe looks super simple, and it is, but there is a slight learning curve for spreading out the sugar dough and rolling up the peanut butter log, so don't be discouraged if your first few attempts are a little awkward. I haven't made this recipe enough to be good at it. My mom makes it look simple, but my peanut butter sugar candy always looks like I made it with one arm tied behind my back.
Spoon some powdered sugar into a small bowl, about 1½ cups. The measurement doesn't have to be exact, because the main thing you want to accomplish is getting the milk-to-sugar ratio right. Build a small well in the center of your powdered sugar and add milk in at about a tablespoon at a time, mixing it slowly as you go. Don't add the milk too quickly. Stir the mixture around until it clumps and thickens like a dough. Add milk as needed, and if it gets too wet, just add more sugar.
Start mixing with a spoon, and as it clumps into a sugar dough, use your hand to mix. Once you get a doughball of sugar, flour a flat surface with powdered sugar and place your doughball of flour on it. Flatten the dough with your hand, adding sugar as needed to keep it from sticking. Turn the sugar dough and flatten it out by hand and then use a rolling pin to flatten and spread the dough until it is about the thickness of a tortilla.
Use a spatula to spread a thin layer of creamy peanut butter over the entire surface of the sugar. Then carefully roll the sugar up from one side to the next, creating a pinwheel of sugar and peanut butter. Dust with sugar as needed to keep the log from sticking. Knead the peanut butter sugar log and press and pull and turn to make it as long as possible without tearing.
Use a knife to cut the log into candy pieces about ½ in length. Set the candy aside on a plate and it will firm up over time. Place it in the fridge and it will firm up faster. Make as much candy as you like, but don't go crazy!--it's a bunch of sugar. It's a nice treat, but definitely one you want to eat in moderation. I hope you like this candy, it's one of my childhood favorites.
My mama uses a lot of her kitchen baking gadgets in this video, but you can easily make do with regular kitchen items like a spatula and butter knife, or you can check current prices for some of the gadgets Amazon:
For another easy to make sweet treat, take a look at this Marshmallow Cereal Bar Recipe.
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