On Wed 17 Aug 2005 07:57:26a, jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
Quoted message said:Wayne Boatwright said:On Wed 17 Aug 2005 06:17:57a, jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
Quoted message said:Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Wed 17 Aug 2005 02:37:23a, jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> This was made by my German grandmother and is to die for but is
>> also very labor intensive. Tackle it if you will 🙂
>>
>> Lena Ruffner McQuown's Date-nut Coconut Candy
>>
>> 2 c. sugar
>> 1 c. whole milk
>> 1-1/2 Tbs. butter (or as she said, butter the size of a large
>> walnut)
>
> This sounds SO good, Jill. Your grandmother had more fortitude than
> I do! I would love to eat this, but I would not love to make it.
> :-)
You'll just have to trust me, it's delicious! She also made fudge
with walnuts and soft butterscotch candy (I don't have those recipes,
darnit). A visit to grandma meant checking the candy dish for her
homemade goodies 🙂
She baked 8 loaves of bread every Tuesday. She kept two, gave 2 to
my other grandparents (they were next door neighbors - yes, Dad
married the proverbial girl next door 54 years ago!) and gave the
other loaves to various neighbors.
Jill
Yep, grandmothers were like that. Mine did the bread baking and the
goody making, and every visit was a treat!
My Grandma Brown did the cookie thing. First thing you did after giving
her a hug was check the big green tin on the shelf by the cellar stairs.
Ginger-snaps, oatmeal-raisin cookies and M&M cookies.
Being in the South, you could never go to my grandmother's without finding
at least 2 or 3 cakes and a pie or two, even when it wasn't a holiday.
While we were there she would always make a hot gingerbread and, usually, a
banana pudding. When I was growing up, my grandparents owned a small
country store, which had the proverbial "penny candy" glass case. All we
grandchildren were in heaven.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:I'm keeping the recipe, just in case I ever get up the ambition to
tackle it! :-)
Just don't burn your fingers when shaping it into the long strip! I
learned the hard way.
I always take head of "hot"!
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:I love dates. My mom used to stuff dates with some kind of a nut
mixture, then roll in sugar and coconut. I still make the date-nut
squares recipe you posted.
Ah yes, that was years ago! Similar area of the country, if I remember
correctly, so we figured it was a regional sort of thing 🙂
Yep, it was at least 6-7 years ago, and we agreed it had to be a regional
thing. It's funny, since we've moved to AZ where they grow a huge abount
of dates, I've never heard of anyone making these out here. When I make
them they disappear very quickly. One plate of them I took to work
disappeared betwen the time I set it out and went to the break room to get
my coffee!
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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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