Author Topic: Favorite candy at Christmas (Read 1171 times)

bearmgc · « **on:** December 22, 2009, 01:15:45 PM »

Every Christmas season I get the overwhelming taste for Almond Roca. I don't even try to resist. With a cup of fresh ground coffee, ooooboy.

Questor · « **Reply #1 on:** December 22, 2009, 01:16:19 PM »

Hazelnut chocolate.

Skunk · « **Reply #2 on:** December 22, 2009, 01:18:37 PM »

Peanut brittle, heavy on the peanuts, is high on the list.

Datil · « **Reply #3 on:** December 22, 2009, 01:50:16 PM »

Any and all above plus any others, I guess you beleive I like candy

Datil

oldandslow · « **Reply #4 on:** December 22, 2009, 02:14:10 PM »

Peanut brittle. My wife and I collaborate on making it. She supplies the brains and I supply the labor. She measures and puts what goes where at the right time and I stir and pour it out on the cookie sheets. I know they are called cookie sheets cause she told me so.

P.A. Myers · « **Reply #5 on:** December 22, 2009, 02:41:29 PM »

Barley sugar hard candy from PA. Grampa would send a bag and a tin barrel of huge rock-hard pretzels.

Merry Christmas

greg916 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 22, 2009, 02:46:59 PM »

Peanut Brittle. Seems to show up around here every Christmas.

Old Fart · « **Reply #7 on:** December 22, 2009, 03:32:21 PM »

I like the peanut brittle and then the little bag of rock candy and fruit they give us each year at church.

Questor · « **Reply #8 on:** December 22, 2009, 03:36:20 PM »

Aha! So that's who is eating all that peanut brittle. My wife makes it every year and I won't go near it.

Casull · « **Reply #9 on:** December 22, 2009, 03:40:55 PM »

Love peanut brittle, but favorite anytime has to be fudge, with nuts of course.

bearmgc · « **Reply #10 on:** December 22, 2009, 03:43:02 PM »

Years ago, I had a thing for peanut brittle, mainly I think because they'd give us a canister of it at work. We'd be eating that stuff all through Christmas. 2 years in a row I ended up at the dentist, once a broken tooth, then a filling came out. That was it. No more peanut brittle. Almond Roca is much kinder to me...

Oldshooter · « **Reply #11 on:** December 22, 2009, 03:51:52 PM »

Ok We talkin candy! Homemade pecan Pralines made by my Grandmother then by my Mother. She passed away in September so there may not be any this year! Hope yall are glad you made an old man cry!

Skunk · « **Reply #12 on:** December 22, 2009, 03:53:22 PM »

Quote from: bearmgc on December 22, 2009, 03:43:02 PM

2 years in a row I ended up at the dentist, once a broken tooth, then a filling came out.

That's why it needs to be thin on the toffee and heavy on the peanuts.

Skunk · « **Reply #13 on:** December 22, 2009, 03:56:20 PM »

Quote from: Oldshooter on December 22, 2009, 03:51:52 PM

Homemade pecan Pralines...

Hmmm, Homemade pecan Pralines don't sound too bad either.

bearmgc · « **Reply #14 on:** December 22, 2009, 03:59:20 PM »

Skunk,Geez, if I coulda known that then. No dental insurance made for 2 expensive christmases.

Oldshooter, any chance someone in the family will pick up the tradition?

Oldshooter · « **Reply #15 on:** December 22, 2009, 04:04:17 PM »

Heck I dunno! I tried to drop some hints but i have trouble talking about it. Maybe someone will have pity on an old man and come through. wont be the same without em, but I wont be the same anyway.

Skunk I'm gonna copy that picture and leave some prints laying around ! but I'm gonna keep one for myself.

Elijah Gunn · « **Reply #16 on:** December 22, 2009, 04:06:24 PM »

My wife makes a superb chocolate fudge wreath that has walnuts, raisins, and maraschino cherries in it. I also love to get those chocolate oranges.

buffermop · « **Reply #17 on:** December 23, 2009, 07:15:41 AM »

I second the motion on peanut brittle and add the old fashion ribbon candy to it.

Skunk · « **Reply #18 on:** December 23, 2009, 07:54:34 AM »

Quote from: Oldshooter on December 22, 2009, 04:04:17 PM

Skunk I'm gonna copy that picture and leave some prints laying around ! but I'm gonna keep one for myself.

Oldshooter, I've got a hankering for Pecan Pralines now.

I'm going to try a little begging to the wife real soon here.

Heather · « **Reply #19 on:** December 23, 2009, 08:09:56 AM »

I hate to toot my own horn, but beep ba beep ba beep ba ba beep beep beep. I make the best fudge dipped pecans south of the Mason Dixon line. :-)

Heather

Skunk · « **Reply #20 on:** December 23, 2009, 08:35:05 AM »

Quote from: Heather on December 23, 2009, 08:09:56 AM

I make the best fudge dipped pecans south of the Mason Dixon line. :-)

Mmmm, Fudge Dipped Pecans. Now that sounds good too. I like just about anything that has pecans.

Oldshooter · « **Reply #21 on:** December 23, 2009, 10:56:40 AM »

Err ummm hmmm I think I will have to be the judge of that Heather!!

nodlenor · « **Reply #22 on:** December 23, 2009, 11:18:51 AM »

Another vote for peanut brittle. My wife makes me a batch every christmas. I'm not supposed to have the sugar but it's christmas for goodness sake.

Graybeard · « **Reply #23 on:** December 23, 2009, 11:39:59 AM »

Nuttin mentioned so far but my tastes don't change at any holiday period my favorite or actually favorites are ALWAYS my favorites year round. Now as a boy peanut brittle was like hard candy always a standard thing to bring home it seemed. Hard candies and even peanut brittle wrapped in wax paper was always part of what was in the stockings. I like peanut brittle OK but it's far from a favorite.

For me nothing is better than a Nestles Crunch bar. Close behind are baby ruth's, butter fingers and of course M&Ms and Hershey's kisses. What comes home more often for this time of year IF I buy candy and I don't always are the Kisses and M&Ms and in fact I did pick up a bag of each the other day at Wal-Mart. Walnuts and pecans are particular favorites this time of year if I can get fresh ones from this year. I always buy several bags. I sure will be glad when my pecan, walnut and chestnut trees start dropping nuts so I no longer need to buy them.

Sweetwater · « **Reply #24 on:** December 23, 2009, 12:09:09 PM »

I think the peanut brittle tradition in our family began with my Dad getting it for my Grandfather. Don't recall anyone in the family making it back then. I continued the tradition, getting it for my Dad. Now, my wife and two of my daughters make it every Christmas, and I believe I actually reach the point of overdosing on it!! What a way to go! LOL and YEAH, thin on the toffee, heavy on the peanuts!

Randy; nothing stays the same. As my grandmothers got elderly and then my mom, traditions have lapsed a bit, but some of them get picked up by the younger generations as it becomes important to them to "carry on". We can't go back, but we can take the great memories forward and share the stories with those who weren't there. I guess that's what we become, the great story tellers of the family. Doesn't change it back, but does keep it alive. My grandfather died in '73, and he is still very much a part of my life, even today; via the stories I tell of him. I do know it is far easier to tell stories of him, than it is to sit and think about him - can't do that without a Kleenex. God bless you.....

Regards,
Sweetwater

torpedoman · « **Reply #25 on:** December 23, 2009, 02:29:56 PM »

pin wheels, made with a powdered sugar dough rolled out like a pie crust and covered with peanut butter then rolled up.

ncsurveyor · « **Reply #26 on:** December 23, 2009, 03:01:55 PM »

chocolate baklava.

It's got walnuts
It's got chocolate
It's got honey

Oldshooter · « **Reply #27 on:** December 24, 2009, 05:05:39 AM »

Quote

Randy; nothing stays the same. As my grandmothers got elderly and then my mom, traditions have lapsed a bit, but some of them get picked up by the younger generations as it becomes important to them to "carry on". We can't go back, but we can take the great memories forward and share the stories with those who weren't there. I guess that's what we become, the great story tellers of the family. Doesn't change it back, but does keep it alive. My grandfather died in '73, and he is still very much a part of my life, even today; via the stories I tell of him. I do know it is far easier to tell stories of him, than it is to sit and think about him - can't do that without a Kleenex. God bless you.....

Regards,
Sweetwater

Thanks so much Sweetwater, A great thought! I'll go try to go through this Christmas Season with that in mind! God Bless you and your family.

Brett · « **Reply #28 on:** December 24, 2009, 06:36:02 AM »

Wife's homemade peanut butter balls and her various homemade fudges; chocolate walnut, peanut butter and butterscotch pecan. Mmmm.

Oh, I almost forgot her chocolate truffles.

Skunk · « **Reply #29 on:** December 24, 2009, 06:43:35 AM »

Quote from: Brett on December 24, 2009, 06:36:02 AM

Oh, I almost forgot her chocolate truffles.

Oh man, I love chocolate truffles. Geez, just mark me down for all of the above. They all sound good.