Homemade Candy Recipes

Grandma's Candy Making Recipes Make Delicious, Old-Fashioned Candies

Buttermilk Candy

Boil together 2 cups sugar, 1 cup buttermilk, and butter size of a walnut until it forms a soft ball in water. Remove from the fire and beat until creamy. Pour into buttered pans and cut in squares when cool. --The Farmer's Advocate, circa 1915

Candied Orange Peel

Carefully cut orange peel in strips, place in saucepan in cold water, and bring to boil. Repeat process three times, then measure orange peel and add equal quantity of sugar and hot water to cover, and cook until pulp is translucent. Remove from syrup; roll in sugar; place on plates to dry.

Children's Raisin Candy

One cup powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons cocoa, 2 tablespoons melted butter, and enough boiling water to mix stiff. Flavour with 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Take a little of the mixture on the end of a teaspoon and form into a ball, taking 2 raisins to each ball, and press together until nearly flat. If white candy is preferred leave out cocoa. --Fruits and Candies, circa 1920s

Candy Kisses

Two cupfuls powdered sugar, the whites of 3 eggs, 2 cupfuls coconut, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder; mix all together; drop upon buttered paper and bake until slightly brown in a brisk oven. --Lee's Priceless Recipes, 1895

Panocha

Two pounds of brown sugar, two-thirds cup of milk, butter size of a walnut. Boil about twenty minutes, then take off stove and beat and add one-half pound chopped walnuts.

Wenham Wopsies

Did you know that brothers Will Keith Kellog and Dr. John Harvey Kellog invented cornflakes in Battle Creek, Michigan back in 1894?

Whites of 2 eggs beaten stiff, 2-1/2 cups corn flakes, 1/2 cup coconut, 1 scant cup of sugar and a little vanilla. Mix well and bake on heated tins in moderate oven. --Fruits and Candies, circa 1920s

Penuchle Favourite

Three cups brown sugar, 1 cup cream, 1 teaspoon butter. Boil without stirring until a little dropped in cold water will harden like glass, then take off the stove and stir rapidly. Flavour with vanilla or any other extract liked. Nuts may be added. Pour on buttered plates and cut in squares when it is hard. --The Farmer's Advocate, circa 1915

Honey Candy Recipe

This simple recipe for honey candy must have been a prize winner. The candy is sooooo good!

One pint of white sugar, water sufficient to dissolve it, and 4 tablespoons honey. Boil till brittle; pull white when cooling.

Cream Candy Recipe, or Panocha

This easy recipe for cream candy makes a delicious, old-time panocha candy.

One cup of coarsely chopped walnuts, 2 cups of light-brown sugar, 1 cup of pulverized sugar, 1 cup of sweet milk, 1 tablespoonful butter. Cook until it will form a little ball by testing it in a shallow dish of water, then remove from fire, and add the walnuts, and flavor with teaspoonful of vanilla; beat until it is creamy and turn out in buttered platter; cut in squares. This is a delicious cream candy. --Hazel Rooklidge

3 cups granulated sugar, 2 cups milk, pecans, and butter. Place 1 cup sugar in iron skillet and melt to a light brown. When melted add 1 cup milk. [Then add remaining milk and sugar.] Boil until it forms soft ball in cold water. Remove from fire, add butter and pecans, and beat thoroughly. Pour on buttered dish or oiled paper and cut in squares. Use about 1/4 pound of butter and as many pecans as desired. Be sure to cook over slow fire.