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Ginger Candy Recipe

An Old Fashioned Recipe For Ginger Candy

An easy to make ginger candy recipe from Grandma's recipe collection that makes a delicious old time candy with the distinctive flavor of ginger.

Ginger has long been a favored flavoring ingredient for candy. In seventeenth century England, throughout the reign of the Stuart monarchs, people ate liberal quantities of sweetmeats both for pleasure and for supposed healthiness. Sweetened medicinal lozenges, many containing ingredients of questionable health benefit, were routinely taken to cure a wide variety of legitimate and dubious disorders.

Around the same time, over in the North American Colonies, sugar was used in homes mainly for medicinal purposes and for sweetening tea; it was seldom used for confectionery purposes. Oddly enough, candy was to retain its association with medicine up until the middle of the nineteenth century. Ginger lozenges and candies were described as "carminative and stomachic" and "useful in flatulency and loss of appetite."

So, enjoy your ginger candy. You could say that it's good for you!

Ginger Candy Recipe

This old fashioned recipe for ginger candy is taken from "The Times Cook Book, No. 2: 957 Cooking and Other Recipes by California Women; Brought out by the 1905 Series of Prize Recipe Contests in the Los Angeles Times" published by Times-Mirror Co., Los Angeles, in 1905.

Take 1 cup of water to 1-1/2 cups of sugar, and boil until when tested it will roll into a small ball. Flavour to taste with essence of ginger or powdered ginger. Rub some of the syrup against the side of the pan with a wooden spoon until it turns white, then pour into buttered tins and put in a cool place.

Recipe For Ginger Crystals

This vintage homemade candy recipe is taken from one of Mom's old recipe scrapbooks, circa 1929.

1 envelope Knox® Gelatine, 1/2 cup cold water, 2 cups granulated sugar, 1 cup boiling water, 1/2 cup crystallized ginger cut in small pieces, 1 tablespoonful lemon juice.

Soak gelatine in cold water ten minutes. Put sugar and boiling water in saucepan, place on range, and when sugar is dissolved add soaked gelatine. Bring to boiling-point and let boil fifteen minutes. Remove from range and add lemon juice. Turn into pan dipped in cold water, having mixture three-fourths inch in depth.

Let stand overnight, cut in oblong shapes, roll in fine granulated sugar and let stand to crystallize. --Dainty Desserts for Dainty People

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Now you can enjoy the delicious taste of homemade ginger candy with the help of a vintage ginger candy recipe from Grandma's recipe collection.

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