Old Fashioned Brown Candy Recipes

Steps:

• Grease an 8x8-inch pan.
• Bring brown sugar, evaporated milk, and butter to a boil in a large saucepan; boil mixture for exactly 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add confectioners' sugar. Beat fudge with an electric mixer on medium speed for exactly 5 minutes. Stir in walnuts. Spread fudge into the prepared pan and let cool before cutting into squares.

Steps:

• In a heavy 2 quart saucepan, combine the sugar, water and corn syrup. Cook, stirring constantly until the sugar is dissolved; then cook without stirring, lowering the heat and cooking more slowly during the last few minutes, to the hard crack stage (300 degrees F), If sugar crystals form on sides of pan, wipe them off with a damp brush.
• Remove from heat, add oil flavoring and enough food coloring to color; stir only to mix. Pour into 2 well buttered 9 inch pans. Set one pan of candy over a sauce pan containing hot water (unless you have a helper to help cut the candy). As soon as the other pan of candy is cool enough to handle, cut it with scissors into 1-inch strips. Then snip the strips into pieces. Work fast. Drop the pieces onto a buttered baking sheet. If the candy cools too quickly, set it on a saucepan over hot water to soften it, but if it gets sticky, return at once to the work counter.
• Toss in a small amount of powdered sugar to keep from sticking together. Repeat with the second pan of candy.

Steps:

• Pour 1 cup of sugar into heavy pan and place over low heat.
• Begin stirring with wooden spoon and keep sugar moving; it will take about 15 minutes to completely melt all sugar and it should be the color of light brown sugar syrup.
• Pour remaining sugar, together with 1 cup milk, in heavy kettle and set over low heat to cook slowly while you are melting sugar.
• As soon as the sugar is melted, begin pouring it into kettle of boiling milk.
• Pour slowly, continue cooking and stirring just until mixture is 238 degrees to 240 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Turn out the fire and immediately add baking soda, stirring hard as it foams up.
• As soon as soda is mixed, add butter; it will melt as you stir.
• Set pan of candy off the stove for 20 minutes until lukewarm.
• Add vanilla and begin beating using a wooden spoon.
• Beat until mixture is thickened and glossy.
• Add broken nuts and mix.
• Turn into a buttered pan.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8-by-8-by-2-inch pan.
• Melt the chocolate and shortening together in a small saucepan. Stir the sugar into the well-beaten eggs in a large bowl. Combine the chocolate and the egg mixtures in the bowl.
• Add the baking powder and salt to flour and sift. Add the flour mixture to the chocolate mixture; add the vanilla and nuts, if using. Stir to combine.
• Spread the dough evenly in the pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes. Cool 30 minutes, cut into squares and enjoy.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Melt butter in microwave.
• Add the cocoa and stir.
• In medium bowl beat eggs until frothy.
• Add sugar, flour, and salt (also nuts if you are using them).
• Pour cocoa mixture over egg mixture and stir all together.
• Put into a greased 8 x 8 pan. Bake for 30 minutes.
• For a doubled recipe use a 9 x 13 pan.
• Icing, recipe below.
• Icing for Best Ever Brownies:
• 1 1/3 cup icing sugar.
• 1/3 cup cocoa.
• 3 tbsp butter or margarine.
• 1 tbsp & 2 tsp hot water
• Beat all ingredients together, add more liquid if necessary.
• Spread over brownies.

Steps:

• Butter a 8 or 9 inch square baking dish.
• In a large heavy saucepan, stir together the brown sugar and evaporated milk. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cook until the temperature reaches between 234 and 240 degrees F (112 to 116 degrees C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms a soft ball that flattens when removed from the water and placed on a flat surface.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the butter, vanilla and walnuts. Continue to beat with a sturdy spoon until the mixture looses its gloss. Pour into the prepared pan. Score into squares with a knife then set aside until firm, about 5 minutes. Cut into squares and serve or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.