Candy. Santa's helper stirs up homemade goodies
Perry County Extension notes share tested candy recipes for fondant fudge and caramels. Fondant should be stored airtight and fades over time. A simple caramel recipe uses half and half for lower calories and cost, with steps for cooling and shaping into squares or turtles.
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Charlotte Coffer
Perry County Home Economics Extension
Geraldine Acker
Perry County
Marilyn Hungerford
Franklin County Extension
Fondant and fudge making guide with candy variations
A long, detailed set of candy making steps and tips covers fondant fudge brittle and buckeyes. It includes boiling, cooling, kneading, and setting instructions, plus variations with cream of tartar, corn syrup, and coconut, and notes from a Holiday Ideas Day featuring Buckeyes and Christmas clusters recipes.
Raisins add flavor to Christmas baking
Raisins flavor two holiday cookies. Freezer fruitcake cookies combine butter sugar egg flour cream of tartar raisins candied fruit and nuts, then frozen and baked in 375 degree heat for 12 to 14 minutes. Raisin lebkuchen blends brown sugar honey lemon zest and juice with spices flour baking soda salt nuts and candied peels, baked 18 to 20 minutes, glazed with lemon glaze.
Summer coatings for easy candy making explained
In October at Perry County Extension, Paul Baker teaches using summer coating in place of real chocolate to make barks and clusters. Melt in a double boiler, avoid paraffin, and keep water just below boiling. Summer coating melts repeatedly without harm, comes in colors like white brown pink yellow or green, and yields cheaper, non tempering candy with flexible flavor options.
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Perry
Baker’s
Homemade candy gifts show care and cost saving tips
This guide outlines crafting homemade candies with trays wraps cups and molds, offering tips on presentation gifting and ingredients. It notes using Styrofoam trays from produce or meat departments clear plastic wrap and decorative papers, plus dipping nuts pretzels and peanut butter cups while comparing ingredient prices for value.
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du Quoin Homemakers’ Extension Association
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