Peppermint Christmas Candy Recipes

Grandma's Peppermint Christmas Candy Recipes For An Old-Fashioned Christmas

You will want to try these old-fashioned peppermint Christmas candy recipes and make delicious peppermint drops and wafers for the Holidays.

Also try the historic candy cane recipe and make your own candy canes. It's lots of fun, and you can get the kids involved. Just be sure there's an adult to supervise the little ones around the boiling sugar syrup as it gets very hot.

Whether you enjoy nibbling on these old-time Christmas candies with your family and friends, or you give them as edible Christmas gifts, they are sure to delight. Nothing tastes as good as old-fashioned, homemade candies.

History Of The Candy Cane

Mix together until sugar is dissolved 1 pound granulated sugar and 1/2 pint cold water. Add 6 drops oil of peppermint and cook for five minutes. Take from fire and stir a little until syrup becomes cloudy, then pour at once into small, greased patty pans, or drop quickly on lightly buttered paper from a teaspoon.

This candy must be poured quickly, or granules will form. Colouring may be added before pouring to give a festive appearance.

Candy Cane Recipe

A Stick Candy Recipe Suitable For Making Candy Canes

One pound of granulated sugar, one cupful of water, a quarter of a cupful of vinegar or half a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one small tablespoonful of glycerine. Flavour with vanilla, rose, lemon, or peppermint.

Boil all except the flavouring, without stirring, twenty minutes or half an hour, or until crisp when dropped in water. Just before pouring upon greased platters to cool, add half a teaspoonful of baking soda.

After pouring upon platters to cool, pour two teaspoonfuls of flavouring over the top. When partly cool, pull it until very white. Draw it into sticks the size you wish, and cut off with shears into short sticks or kiss-shaped drops.

The candy may be coloured if desired, and the sticks shaped to make homemade candy canes for Christmas. Two thin sticks, one colored red and one left white, when twisted together and rolled will make a striped candy cane.

Peppermint Drops

One cupful of sugar crushed fine, and just moistened with boiling water, then boiled five minutes; then take from the fire and add cream of tartar the size of a pea; mix well and add four or five drops of oil of peppermint. Beat briskly until the mixture whitens, then drop quickly upon white paper.

Have the cream of tartar and oil of peppermint measured while the sugar is boiling. If it sugars before it is all dropped, add a little water and boil a minute or two.

1-1/2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup boiling water, 6 drops oil peppermint. Put sugar and water into a granite saucepan and stir until sugar is dissolved. Boil ten minutes; remove from fire, add peppermint, and beat until of right consistency. Drop from tip of spoon on slightly buttered paper.

Mix 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup boiling water; let it boil 7 minutes without stirring. Take from fire, add 1/3 teaspoonful essence of peppermint; stir until it begins to thicken; drop with a teaspoon on buttered paper.