Category: Cooking & Drinking

Candy-Making at Home Two hundred ways to make candy with home flavors and professional finish

WE find it quite possible to make just as delicious candy at home as can be bought of the most famous manufacturers. Of course there are a few kinds of candies that can be made only with the aid of special machinery; but there are enough kinds that can be made with utensils fo...

Chapters

11. CHAPTER XI

DELICIOUS bonbons may be made with cake and fondant, and then there are many little sweets that are so closely allied to candies that they may well be included in a book on cand...

8. CHAPTER VIII

THE foundation for nearly all bonbons is fondant. Hundreds of varieties of bonbons can be made by using different flavorings and different combinations of one kind with another....

10. CHAPTER X

To the beaten whites of six eggs add eight ounces of blanched and powdered almonds. With the yolks of the eggs beat one pound of powdered sugar; add the grated rinds of two lemo...

4. CHAPTER IV

FUDGE is one of the most easily made, and one of the most popular of all the home-made candies. Caramels are also a favorite. These candies can be made a great variety of ways.

6. CHAPTER VI

SOME of the most delicious home-made candies are made with the addition of fruits to the other ingredients. All kinds of candied fruits, also many kinds of dried fruits, such as...

5. CHAPTER V

Blanch a pound of almonds; this is done by pouring hot water over the almond meats and letting them stand on back of stove for about five minutes when the skins can easily be sl...

3. CHAPTER III

MANY persons prefer the hard candies to the soft varieties. Most of these hard candies are boiled to the crack stage or hard crack stage, which is from 280 to 310 degrees. In te...

9. CHAPTER IX

EXCELLENT, inexpensive and nourishing sweets may be made with popped pop-corn. For making these sweets the pop-corn kernels should be large, crisp and with no hard centers. The...

1. CHAPTER I

WE find it quite possible to make just as delicious candy at home as can be bought of the most famous manufacturers. Of course there are a few kinds of candies that can be made...

7. CHAPTER VII

SEA FOAM and cream candies are delicious, and very easily made by the home candy-maker. Sea foam candies are those in which the white of egg is used, while the cream candies are...

2. CHAPTER II

THE foundation for innumerable cream candies and for nearly all bonbons is what the confectioners call "fondant." This is quite easily made by the home candy-maker after once ge...