Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Monday, December 3, 2007

Never-Fail Divinity Fudge

4 cups sugar
2 cups water
1 cup white corn syrup
1 cup nuts
1 tsp. vanilla

Boil sugar, water and corn syrup to soft ball stage. beat ef whites to a stiff froth, while syrup is boiling. Add one cup syrup to beaten egg whites, slowly. Put rest of surup back on the stove and boild to hard boil stage. Then add to first batch slowly, beating all the time. Add nuts and vanilla. When it begins to cool, drop on waxed paper.

*Gladys wrote: real good

Goldie's Hot Punch

1 gallon sweet cider
1 large can grapefruit juice
1 large can pineapple juice
3 sticks cinnamon

Heat together and boil for 5 minutes. Wash 6 small oranges and stick full of cloves. Heat oranges in oven. Bake in punch bowl and pour hot liquid over oranges. A German drink, between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Christmas Jello Salad

Dissolve one package lemon jello in 1 2/3 cups water. Let set until partially thickened. Mix inlarge package (8 oz.) cream cheese, #2 can crushed (and drained) pineapple. Whip 1/2 pt. whipped cream, fold in 8 oz. marshmallows. Mix with above. Dissolve 2 packages of lime or cherry jello in 3 cups water. Cool until slightly jelled. Pour over above and chill.

*Serves about 12