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PunkyD20391 | 23:38 Wed 01st Dec 2004 | Food & Drink
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In socail studies we are learning about the colonial time when everyone was settling in America. We have to do a project that deals with the candy they made in that time. Does anyone know some recipes for any type of candy or food they would have made during that time? Do you know any websites where I can find information and recipes ?
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do a web search for taffy. Also maybe nut brittles
I think that they did a lot of sweet cooking with maple syrup, also they made "hard candies" flavoured with herbs
google on snow taffy for loads of sites
also "horehound candy" and "hard candy recipes"

In 'Little House in the Big Woods' it says for Christmas they boiled molasses and sugar together until it made a thick syrup, then added two pans of clean, white snow. They then poured the dark syrup in little streams onto the snow. They made circles etc and these hardened immediately to form candy.

 

Further on in the book it describes the making of Sugar Snow made from Maple Syrup - obtained by boring a hole in Maple trees and letting the sap pour into buckets, then boiling the syrup until granular.

Sounds very much like the fudge of today.

You can buy maple butter in waitrose shops, its delicious.

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