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Sweets for christmas?
Have any of you made sweet treats like fudge and toffee etc? Maybe you have other treats you make for christmas?
Hubs adores fudge (rum & raisin especially) & Dad loves treacle toffee and peanut brittle. I've not made either before but I'd be up for trying for those nice little christmas stocking fillers.
Do you have a proven recipe for such goodies? Also, how long do homemade sweets last for? I want to make them for Christmas and we're off to France on the 20th.
A x
Hubs adores fudge (rum & raisin especially) & Dad loves treacle toffee and peanut brittle. I've not made either before but I'd be up for trying for those nice little christmas stocking fillers.
Do you have a proven recipe for such goodies? Also, how long do homemade sweets last for? I want to make them for Christmas and we're off to France on the 20th.
A x
Akuma- Posts : 232
Join date : 2009-11-10
Age : 53
Location : Glorious Co Durham
Re: Sweets for christmas?
For the first time in years I have made some sweets. At the moment only cocanut ice & fudge. Recipies from an old very old Marguerite Patten book. They are what is called laughingly :biglaugh: economical. I must admit I have no idea what they will be like as I used skimmed milk as everyone is supposed to be dieting. The cocanut ice one is probaby about 80 years old & reads
1lb lump sugar
1/2lb cocanut
1/4 pt milk
Put sugar & milk in pan.
Disslove sugar & bring to the boil.
Boil for 8 minutes stirring occasionally.
Stir in coconut.
Put into a buttered tin & leave to set.
Cut into bars while still warm.
As to how it long it keeps I have no idea, it is in the freezer.
1lb lump sugar
1/2lb cocanut
1/4 pt milk
Put sugar & milk in pan.
Disslove sugar & bring to the boil.
Boil for 8 minutes stirring occasionally.
Stir in coconut.
Put into a buttered tin & leave to set.
Cut into bars while still warm.
As to how it long it keeps I have no idea, it is in the freezer.
polgara- Posts : 3028
Join date : 2009-11-16
Age : 77
Location : Sunshine Isle
Re: Sweets for christmas?
I made some Turkish delight the year before last but something went wrong.
It tasted lovely but about 10 seconds after putting it in your mouth your teeth became stuck together and there was no way of unsticking them. For hours afterwards. It was like that scene in the first Matrix film where Keanu Reeves is interrogated and his mouth closes over.
Dreadful experience.
It tasted lovely but about 10 seconds after putting it in your mouth your teeth became stuck together and there was no way of unsticking them. For hours afterwards. It was like that scene in the first Matrix film where Keanu Reeves is interrogated and his mouth closes over.
Dreadful experience.
Re: Sweets for christmas?
Never tried Turkish Delight, but did try nougat one time & it was awful.
polgara- Posts : 3028
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Location : Sunshine Isle
Re: Sweets for christmas?
I made Turkish delight m,any years ago and it turned out ok. I don't like it but my dad does and my FiL did.
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Re: Sweets for christmas?
Tried to make some fondant creams, they ended up as raspberry sugar although I followed the recipie in the above mentioned book, so made choccy fudge instead.
polgara- Posts : 3028
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Re: Sweets for christmas?
I suppose you'll be wanting the recipe for my infamous chocolate fudge?
Well you can't have it, there ain't one. The closest there is is a gameplan, thus:
Sorry I was too late for Xmas.
Well you can't have it, there ain't one. The closest there is is a gameplan, thus:
Best served with a hint of paraffinHairyloon wrote:Recipe? You think I work to a recipe?
Gently melt some butter (1/4lb?)
Add a load of sugar (1lb?) and a sploosh of milk.
Stir until it's melted.
Cover & simmer for a while.
Add a splodge of cream & a bar of chocolate (I usually use Lidl's 70% stuff).
Heat until the mix reaches about 114 deg C. Otherwise known as the"soft ball" stage.
To test, drop a drip into cold water & if it forms soft fudgy balls then it's about right.
(If it's too cold, you'll end up with fudge sauce, too hot you'll get toffee.)
Remove from heat, ideally dip pan in cold water or put on a cold slab (tricky in camp conditions) & beat untill you're knackered.
Pour into a suitably greased container & leave it to cool.
Good luck. (It's dead easy really).
Sorry I was too late for Xmas.
Hairyloon- Posts : 649
Join date : 2009-12-09
Location : UK
Re: Sweets for christmas?
Hairy, thank you so much. I shall print that off & give it a go, but not till I have eaten this years contributions which turned out well but I am only supposed to eat sparingly.
polgara- Posts : 3028
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Age : 77
Location : Sunshine Isle
Re: Sweets for christmas?
I can vouch for the fudge....hairyloon made it for us at the BGG 2007...it was utterly delish!
Compostwoman- Posts : 5688
Join date : 2009-11-08
Re: Sweets for christmas?
It is almost foolproof.
The trick is, when it goes wrong, to pretend you were actually intending to make fudge sauce, or toffee, depending which direction it went wrong in.
(But hush, that's a trade secret (or it would be if I were in the trade)).
Alternatively, you can melt it down and try it again.
Also nice with a bit of crystallised ginger chopped up & stirred in.
The trick is, when it goes wrong, to pretend you were actually intending to make fudge sauce, or toffee, depending which direction it went wrong in.
(But hush, that's a trade secret (or it would be if I were in the trade)).
Alternatively, you can melt it down and try it again.
Also nice with a bit of crystallised ginger chopped up & stirred in.
Hairyloon- Posts : 649
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Location : UK
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