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Peppermint Candy Recipes

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

Grandma's peppermint candy recipes are great for making delicious peppermint drops and wafers for the Holidays.

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.

Peppermint Candy Recipe For Christmas

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

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.

Peppermint Drops Recipe For Christmas

This old-fashioned recipe for peppermint candy 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 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.

Peppermint Candy Recipe For Christmas

This old-time hard candy recipe is taken from “The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book” by the celebrated Fannie Merritt Farmer, Principal of the Boston Cooking School, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, circa 1916.

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.

Peppermint Drops Christmas Candy Recipe

This vintage peppermint candy recipe 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.

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.

Have lots of fun trying these vintage peppermint candy recipes. Make your own hard candies for the holidays. Of all the old peppermint Christmas candy recipes, these are the most popular for making hard candies.

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