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Chex Candy

Whips up quick–and makes a ton…

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Chex Candy

Ingredients:

1-1/2 cups corn syrup

1-1/2 cups sugar

1 cup butter

1-1/2 tsp vanilla

1 box Chex cereal–Rice or Corn or both (1lb. 7 oz)

Cook first three ingredients together to full boil. Boil 2 minutes. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Pour over Chex and mix to coat all pieces. Spread on wax paper to cool.

I’ve heard of people adding dry roasted peanuts, or M&M’s, but we like it in it’s plain, unadulterated form. Call us purists.

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Serves a million and makes them very happy.


Chex Candy
 
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Ingredients
  • 1-1/2 cups corn syrup
  • 1-1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1-1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 box Chex cereal (1lb. 7 oz)
Instructions
  1. Cook first three ingredients together to full boil.
  2. Boil 2 minutes.
  3. Remove from heat and add vanilla.
  4. Pour over Chex and mix to coat all pieces.
  5. Spread on wax paper to cool.

 

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Mock Turtles

Go ahead–spend all day making elaborate neighbor treats this Christmas. Yeah, yeah…knock yourself out. Or…

…you could spend just a few minutes–less than ten, in fact and give these tasty treats a whirl. You won’t be sorry.

Mock Turtles

Ingredients:

Rolos (caramel chocolate candy)

Pretzels (grid shaped work best)

Pecan halves

Directions:

Heat oven to about 250 degrees.  Set pretzels on cookie sheet.

Place 1 Rolo candy on each pretzel.

Set in oven only until the chocolate is soft–about 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Press 1 pecan half onto each Rolo. Remove from warm pan to cool.

Now, promptly give them all away to your neighbors or you’ll be sorry…or full of pretzels…and pecans…and chocolate…and caramel… There will be no end.

You will love them…

5.0 from 1 reviews
Mock Turtles
 
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Ingredients
  • Rolos (caramel chocolate candy)
  • Pretzels (grid shaped work best)
  • Pecan halves
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to about 250 degrees.
  2. Set pretzels on cookie sheet.
  3. Place 1 Rolo candy on each pretzel.
  4. Set in oven only until the chocolate is soft--about 2 minutes.
  5. Remove from heat.
  6. Press 1 pecan half onto each Rolo.
  7. Remove from warm pan to cool.

 

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Egg-less Nog

Get this–

You can make your own luscious egg nog without coming anywhere near drinking a raw egg (sorry Rocky). The difference between Vanilla pudding and French Vanilla pudding is that–one has eggs already in the mix–the other doesn’t. Simply perfect.

Ingredients:

8-9 cups milk
1 3 oz package of French Vanilla Instant pudding
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp of nutmeg

In a large bowl, mix the pudding with 2 cups of the milk. When pudding is set, add in the rest of the ingredients. Mix very well. Chill.

Drink it up.


Egg-less Nog
 
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Ingredients
  • 8-9 cups milk
  • 1 3 oz package of French Vanilla Instant pudding
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • ½ tsp of nutmeg
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl, mix the pudding with 2 cups of the milk.
  2. When pudding is set, add in the rest of the ingredients.
  3. Mix very well.
  4. Chill.

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Christmas Hugs

While you have your oven on…

Ingredients:

Pretzels–the grid kind work very well

1 pkg. Hershey’s hugs

red and green M&M’s

You can make these little gems in just a few minutes. Heat oven to 250 degrees. Place pretzels on cookie sheet. Put one, unwrapped Hug on each pretzel.

Place in the oven for 1-2 minutes–or until the tips of the candy are soft. Remove from oven. Gently press an M&M on the top of the Hugs. Makes a really pretty neighbor treat too. They’ll think you slaved…


Christmas Hugs
 
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Ingredients
  • Pretzels--the grid kind work very well
  • 1 pkg. Hershey's hugs
  • red and green M&M's
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 250 degrees.
  2. Place pretzels on cookie sheet.
  3. Put one, unwrapped Hug on each pretzel.
  4. Place in the oven for 1-2 minutes--or until the tips of the candy are soft.
  5. Remove from oven.
  6. Gently press an M&M on the top of the Hugs.

 

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“The” Stuffing Recipe

You could probably make big money selling this recipe on the black market. If you do–remember…I get half.    :]

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Secret Magical Stuffing

(For a Bus Load of People)

Ingredients:

8 small cans of Campbell’s Chicken Broth (Please don’t substitute something else–it won’t be the same)

6-1/2 cubes of butter

3-1/2 Tbsp salt

2 medium onions diced up or run through blender

1-1/2 Tbsp pepper

4-5 Tbsp rubbed sage

1 Tbsp chicken bouillon powder

8-10 loaves of dried, broken up bread (Depends on how big the loaf is)

You are gonna need a big bowl. And no, sorry, you can’t borrow ours…we’re using it.

Dry bread for at least 3 days–5 is better. It needs to be dried hard. Don’t toast it in the oven–it will crumble instead of break.  Break it up in a huge bowl.

Reserve about 6 cups of the broken bread off to the side.  Boil all the other ingredients together for about 15-20 minutes. Pour a cup full at a time over bread and toss until the bread is well coated. You will have some saturated pieces and some that are still dry, so I stir through the bowl and take many of the soaked pieces and smush them onto the dried pieces as you’re tossing it.

That’s really the best way to distribute the broth evenly. If you have plenty of broth, add the rest of the reserved bread a little at a time. Put bread in a foil lined pan and cover with foil–shiny side towards bread– at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes. Use a spatula and turn the stuffing in the pan so the top pieces can have a turn getting brown and golden. Bake for another 30 minutes.  For the last 5-10 minutes, remove foil so the top can be toasty as well. This is the best stuffing in the world.

You must trust me on this.


"The" Stuffing Recipe
 
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Ingredients
  • LARGE RECIPE
  • 8 small cans of chicken broth
  • 7 cubes of butter
  • 3-1/2 Tbsp salt
  • 2 onions diced up or run through blender
  • 2 Tbsp pepper
  • 4-5 Tbsp Rubbed Sage
  • 1 Tbsp chicken bouillon powder
  • 8-10 loaves of dried, broken up bread
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  • I've added a much smaller version of the recipe--about ⅙ the size of the one above. The instructions are basically the same.
  • SMALL RECIPE
  • Ingredients:
  • 3 cans Campbell's Chicken Broth
  • 2 cubes Butter
  • 1-1/2 tsp. Salt
  • 1 Onion diced or run through a blender
  • ½ tsp Pepper
  • 1-3/4 Tbsp Rubbed Sage
  • 1 tsp Chicken Bouillon Powder
  • 2- 3 Loaves of Bread
Instructions
  1. Dry bread for at least 3 days--5 is better.
  2. Break it up in a huge bowl.
  3. Boil all the other ingredients together for about 15-20 minutes.
  4. Pour a cup full at a time over bread and toss until the bread is well coated.
  5. Put bread in a foil lined pan and cover with foil--shiny side towards bread-- at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes. Turn bread in pan and return to oven to brown again for 30 minutes.
  6. For the last 5-10 minutes, remove foil so the top can be toasty as well.