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Caramel Candy Recipe

An Old Fashioned Recipe To Make Caramel Candy Like Grandma's

With the help of a vintage chocolate caramel candy recipe from Grandma's old recipe box, you can make your own deliciously chewy caramels anytime. These caramels are so easy to make, and they taste so good. Much better than store-bought.

Did you know that caramels are among the world's oldest known candies? The Arabs were known to be making confections with refined sugar as early as the eleventh century, and they were the first to invent caramel, which they originally used a sticky depilatory (body sugaring hair removal paste) for harem ladies. Supposedly, the harem ladies soon discovered that caramel made an even better candy.



Chocolate Caramel Candy Recipe

This Fanny Farmer recipe to make caramel candy is taken from "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Principal of the Boston Cooking School, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, circa 1916.

box of chocolate caramel candy 2-1/2 tablespoons butter, 1/2 cup milk, 2 cups molasses, 3 squares chocolate, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Put butter into kettle; when melted, add molasses, sugar, and milk. Stir until sugar is dissolved, and when boiling-point is reached, add chocolate, stirring constantly until chocolate is melted. Boil until, when tried in cold water, a firm ball may be formed in the fingers. Add vanilla just after taking from fire. Turn into a buttered pan, cool, and mark in small squares.

Nut Chocolate Caramels

To Chocolate Caramels add the meat from one pound English walnuts broken in pieces, or one-half pound almonds blanched and chopped.

Homemade Caramel Candy Recipes

These homemade candy recipes are taken from the book "Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping" published by Buckeye Publishing Company, Minneapolis, in 1877.

Chocolate Caramels

One cup grated chocolate, four of sugar, two of molasses, two of milk, butter size of an egg, pinch of soda and flour; boil half an hour with quick fire, stirring to keep from burning; pour in pans and mark in squares when nearly cold. --Mrs. J. F. Wilcox, New Haven, Conn.

Chocolate Caramels

One and a half cups grated chocolate, four of brown sugar, one and a half of cold water, piece of butter size of an egg, tablespoon of very sharp vinegar; flavour with two tablespoons vanilla just before removing from fire. Do not stir, but shake the vessel gently while cooking. Boil on the top of stove over a brisk fire until it becomes brittle when tried in water; pour into a well-buttered and floured dripping-pan, and check off in squares while soft. --Miss Emma Collins, Urbana

White House Caramel Candy Recipe

This recipe to make chocolate caramels 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.

One cupful of grated chocolate, two cupfuls of brown sugar, one cupful of West India molasses, one cupful of milk or cream, butter the size of an egg; boil until thick, almost brittle, stirring constantly. Turn it out onto buttered plates, and when it begins to stiffen, mark it in small squares so that it will break easily when cold. Some like it flavoured with a tablespoonful of vanilla.

Vanilla Chocolate Caramel Candy Recipe

This recipe to make caramel candy is taken from the "Second Edition of The Neighborhood Cookbook" published by the Council of Jewish Women, Portland, in 1914.

One pound vanilla chocolate (Ghirardelli's Monarch), one pound dark-brown sugar, one pound salted butter, two cups milk, one cup Karo (corn) syrup, one vanilla bean. Break chocolate and melt in a little cold water over a moderate fire. When melted add all other ingredients save vanilla bean, and cook over an even fire, stirring only one way. When this begins to boil hard and thicken, add vanilla bean, which must be split down the centre.

Test in cold water before removing from fire, and when it snaps pour into buttered pans, and do not cut until the bottom of the pan is cold. The air should be permitted to circulate all around the pan. Be sure not to get it too hard.

Treat Yourself To Nostalgic Candies

Did you know that you can buy almost all your favorite retro candies from childhood online at the Candy Crate store?

Just click on the Candy Crate banner and prepare to be amazed at what's available. Nostalgic candies make a great gift for any occasion.

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pink rose and old time cookbook Have fun trying these chocolate carmamel candy recipes. Make a dishful of chewy homemade caramels tonight.




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