Easy Homemade Lollipops Recipe
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Homemade Lollipops
Because of World War I, sugar prices had soared from 30 to 50% in less than ten years. Most women couldn't afford to spare sugar to make candy at home, so candy stores and candy counters were the most popular places in town.
The young ones would press their noses against the glass counter with a couple of pennies or a nickel to spend for peppermints, licorice, all day suckers, or chocolate candies or sugar candy stick.
They bought ten cent boxes of Cracker Jacks with the surprise gift of a whistle or a tin frog inside, and candy kisses filled with peanut butter (3 for 1¢) they ate by the ton. For Valentine's Day they bought the little heart shaped candies made by Necco.
How easy can it get making this traditional Holiday candy? It's real easy!
Homemade Lollipops
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup water
1/8 teaspoon Cream of Tartar
Any desired flavoring
Appropriate vegetable coloring
Combine sugar and Cream of Tartar with the 2/3 cup water. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Boil until a temp of 290 F. is reached or until a drop of mixture will become hard when dropped into cold water. Remove from heat. Add flavoring and coloring. Pour into greased pans or molds. When partly cooled insert wooden sticks. Chill.
Lollipops
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup corn syrup
Flavor... any desired
Put sugar, water, and corn syrup in a saucepan and boil to the brittle stage. Flavor as desired and turn into buttered pans. Form into small balls as soon as the candy can be handle, and insert wooden sticks.
Flavor with a few drops of oil of cinnamon or wintergreen, or peppermint
for a change.
(Recipe circ.1919)
Click here to see a recipe for Cinnamon Apples or Cinnamon Lollipops
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Start with a heart full of love. Add warm friendship spiced with laughter
and merriment. Season with joyful greetings and serve with loads of good cheer.
Stocking Stuffers!
Wrap your homemade candies in colorful plastic wrap and tie with festive ribbons.
You might even want to add beaded eyes or a felt nose to the wrapper. And don`t
forget to package your edible gift with an ornament or even attach the recipe.
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For an easy homemade Christmas gift, make some Chex
Party Mix or Crispix Mix and give out
as gifts to co workers. Put in cute decorative holiday bags wrapped with curling
ribbon. Everybody loves them!
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