Peanut Butter Cheese Fudge

1/2 pound sliced easy-melt cheese (recommended; Velveeta)
1 cup butter
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup chopped nuts
2 (16 oz ) boxes confectioners' sugar

Lightly spray the bottom of a 9x2 square pan with nonstick cooking spray. In a saucepan over medium heat, melt cheese and butter together, then add peanut butter and stir until smooth. Remove from heat and add vanilla and nuts.

Empty confectioners' sugar into a large bowl and pour cheese mixture over sugar. Stir until completely mixed. Candy will be very stiff.

Using your hands, remove candy from the bow and press evenly and firmly into the pan. Because of the amount of butter in this recipe, pat top of candy with a paper towel to remove excess oil. Place the pan in refrigerator until candy is firm.

To serve, cut into squares.

Carmels

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup softened butter
1/2 cup corn syrup
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk

Mix all ingredients together in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 6 minutes on high. Pour into greased 8x8 dish and refrigerate for 45 min. to a hour. (Until they are hardened enough to cut into pieces.) Cut into pieces and wrap in wax paper. (Ben Franklin sells wax paper already cut into little pieces)

I love this recipe and I think that my Grannies would too. No standing at the stove stirring and watching the thermometer and being careful not to burn you Carmel's.

Marshmallows

Make your own marshmallows with this recipe from ingredients from your food storage. Keep an eye on the mixer while beating because the marsheallow misture tends to "walk" up the beaters.

Prep time: 30 min.

• 3 envelopes of unflavored Knox gelatin
• 1/2 cup cold water
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 2/3 cups corn syrup
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 tbs vanilla extract
• confectioners' sugar for dredging and molding

1. In a bowl or a bowl of an electric mixer, sprinkle genalin over 1/2 cup cold water. Soak for 10 min.
2. Combine sugar, corn syrup, and 1/4 cup water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil hard for 1 min. Pour boiling syruip into gelatin and mix at high speed. Beat for 12 min. Add vanilla and incorporate into mixture. Scrape into a 9x9 pan dusted with powered sugar and spread evenly. After pouring in to bowl dust top with powder sugar. You can also put powdered sugar into a cake pan, spread evenly. Take a plastic egg that your kids have and press into powdered sugar to make molds. You then drop marshmallow mixture into molds.
3. Let misture sit until it has set up. Remove from pan, dredge the marshmallow with powder sugar and cut into 12 equal pieces with scissosrs.
4. You can melt dipping chocolate and spread over the top. These are very good. I think better than the ones that you buy at the store.

Pinto Bean Fudge

Melt 6 oz unsweetened chocolate in pan
Add 6 tbs butter to chocolate and melt
Put 1 cup cooked, mashed pinto beans in bowl
Add 1/4 cup milk to chocolate and butter mixture.
Add to beans
Pour in powdered sugar to make thick (aprx 2 1/2 pounds)
Mix by hand and pour into buttered pan and let set.

Powdered Milk Fudge

1/2 cup powdered milkk (if instant dry milk is used use 3/4 cup)
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup peanut butter
chopped nuts

Mix peanut butter and honey together. Blend in dry milk. Slowly mix together and form into balls. Rool in chopped nuts.

Molasses Taffy

1 cup molasses
2 tsp vinegar
1/8 tsp salt
3/4 cup sugar
1 tbs butter
1/8 tsp baking soda

Boil molasses, sugar, and vinegar to hard ball stage (260-270 F) Remove from heat. Add butter, baking soda and salt. Stir only enough to blend. Pour into well-buttered pan. When cool, pull until light and porous. Cut in 1 inch pieces.

Pure Honey Taffy

Heat 2 cups of honey to boiling. Add pinch baking soda. 1 tbs butter, 1 tbs lemon juice, and a few grains of salt. Boil to hard ball stage. Pout into butter pan. Cool. Pull.

Honey Nuggets

1/3 cup shortening
1/2 cup honey
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cup sifted flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 package semi-sweet chocolate pieces
1/2 cup chopped nuts

Cream together shortening and honey. Add egg and vanilla. Beat until light and fluffy. Sift together flour, soda and salt. Add to first mixture along with chocolate pieces and nuts. Drop by tsp onto greased cookie sheet. Bake in moderate oven about 375 10 -12 min. Makes about 4 dozen.