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Candy Cane RecipeOld Fashioned Recipe For Peppermint Candy Canes You Can Make Yourself
An old fashioned candy cane recipe to make homemade candy canes. Making candy canes at home in your kitchen is fun, and you can even get the kids involved. Just be sure there's an adult present always to supervise the little ones around the boiling sugar syrup as it gets very hot. Bright red and white candy canes are part of the Christmas festivities for children of all ages. Whether eaten or wrapped in clear plastic and used as decorations, candy canes are fun and evoke happy memories of Christmas's past. History Of The Candy CaneIt is generally believed that in 1670, the kindly old choirmaster at Germany’s Cologne Cathedral had someone bend boiled sugar sticks into the form of shepherds' crooks, which he gave to his younger choristers to keep them silent during the long Christmas Eve service.It wouldn't be until the end of the nineteenth century, however, that the familiar red-and-white-striped "candy cane" appeared: the white representing Christ's sinless life and the red stripes representing the Blood of Christ and His sacrificial death on the cross for all humanity -- "by whose stripes ye were healed." (I Peter 2:24) When turned upside down, the cane shape appears as the letter "J" for Jesus. It is claimed that the original candy canes were flavoured with peppermint since that flavour is very similar to the flavour of hyssop, a recognized Biblical symbol of sacrifice. Interestingly, candy canes were all tediously handmade until the 1950s, when Father Gregory Keller, a Roman Catholic priest, invented a machine to fully automate their production. Now, about two billion are prepared and sold annually worldwide.  Get Grandma's Dessert Recipes
Peppermint Candy Cane RecipeThis old-fashioned peppermint Christmas candy recipe is taken from "The White House Cook Book" by Hugo Ziemann, Steward of the White House, and Mrs. F. L. Gillette, a celebrated 19th-century cookbook author, published by The Saalfield Publishing Company, New York, in 1913.
Have fun trying this old time candy cane recipe. Make stick candy treats and edible candy cane decorations for the holidays.
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A stick candy recipe suitable for making candy canes.