Mexican

Come on over ladies. Bring your recipes and taste some of our favorite Mexican dishes. Wednesday August 5th, 2pm at Julie Connors home. Come and enjoy. Feel free to bring your children and they can play.

Pasta! Pasta! Pasta!

Come join us Wednesday, July 8, 2:00 at Julie Conners home. We will be sharing your favorite pasta recipe. So come prepared to share and enjoy each others company.

Candy Canes

This recipe is from Staci Stout

2 cups sugar 1/2 cup light corn syrup

1/2 cup water 1/4 tsp cream of tartar

3/4 tsp of flavoring extract 1 tsp food coloring

In a heavy sauce pan mix the sugar, corn syrup, water and cream of tartar until the sugar is completely dissolved.  Cook the mixture without stirring until the mixture reaches 265 degrees. Remove from heat and add the extract.  Put 1/2 of the mixture in a buttered pan, and the other half in another buttered pan.   Add the food coloring to one of the pans.  Let the candy cool slightly.  While waiting grease cookie sheets. Butter your hands and have someone else butter theirs and then pull and fold the mixtures until they have slight shiny sheen to them.  Roll them into a thin 18 inch rope.  Cut to the desired length and coil the two ropes around each other and form into a candy cane. Place on the greased cookie sheets. If the mixture gets brittle or cold you can put it in a warm oven for about 2-5 minutes till it softens and again work coiling and making the cane.

Caramel

This recipe is from Kristanne Willden

2 cups light corn syrup 2 cup evaporated milk

2 cups sugar 1 cube of butter - cut up

1 tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla

Mix the sugar, syrup and salt.  Bring to a roaring boil over med-high to high, stirring occasionally.  Let the mixture boil until it becomes thicker and slightly caramel colored.  Then add the milk and the butter alternately never letting the mixture stop boiling.  Stir constantly. The mixture may flip as it gets thicker so use a tall spoon or wear a glove.  Cook until the mixture reaches a firm ball stage on a thermometer or when tested in cold water will stand on your finger.  Take off the heat and add the vanilla.  Pour into a buttered cake pan and cool.  Cut and eat.  If you want to share, wrap the carmel pieces in saran wrap.

Fudge

This recipe is from Leisa Williams

4 1/2 cups sugar 1/2 cup butter

1 can evaporated milk 12 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips

2 giant milk chocolate bars 1 jar marshmallow creme

Combine Sugar, butter and evaporated milk in a heavy sauce pan.  Stir constantly until the mixture boils.  Cook for 5 minutes over medium high heat.  Remove from heat and add chocolate.  Stir until completely melted.  Stir in Marshmallow creme, blend well.  Pour into a buttered 9X13X2 pan.  Cool and cut into  1 inch squares.  Store in a tightly covered container.  

Pretzel/caramel/chocolate/pecan treats

This recipe is from Sheree Bjerregaard.

1 pkg. small hard pretzels 2-3 rolls of Rollos

1 pkg. whole pecans.

Put pretzels on a cookie sheet, about 3-4 a row.  Put a Rollo on top of each pretzel.  Preheat the oven to 350.  Once the over reaches 350 turn it off and put in the cookie sheet for about 5-7 minutes or until the Rollos are soft.  Take the cookie sheet out of the oven and press a pecan into each Rollo flattening it.  Cool and eat.

Candy Making

We had a lot of fun Thursday making candy with the ladies in the ward.  We made caramel, candy canes, and pretzel/caramel/pecan/chocolate candies.

Here is Jenny pulling the candy cane mixture.

Here is Jennifer and A little of Staci working on the candy cane mixture.

The caramel when it is having the milk and butter added.

The caramel right before it is done.

Pouring out the candy cane mixture to color it and cool it.

Leisa Williams brought fudge!!

The finished candy canes.

Staci Stout demonstrated candy canes and they were really easy and REALLY GOOD!  Kristanne demonstrated Caramel, Leisa Williams brought fudge and Sheree (even though laid up) sent all of the stuff to make the pretzel candy with.  The recipes will be in the next 4 posts.  We had a fun time and were so glad that Jenny Roos, JenniferKendall, Staci Sout, Janette McEntire, Melissa Christiansen, Leisa Williams and Kristanne Willden attend. We'd love to see even more in February!!