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Penochi (candy) Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups Brown Sugar
1/2 cup Milk
Butter - the size of a walnut
Lump of Baking Soda - the size of a pea
1 tsp. Vanilla
Optional: chopped nuts
Directions:
Directions:
Boil 2 cups brown sugar, one half cup milk and butter the size of a walnut until it forms a soft ball when dropped in water. Then add a lump of baking soda, the size of a pea. Let boil up again. Take from fire and stir constantly until it begins to grain. Add one teaspoon of vanilla and chopped nuts if so desired. Pour into a pan and cut when cold.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This is a recipe for candy. It is a very old recipe that was in my great, great grandmothers diary. The diary now resides in the Huntington museum. It was written when she and her husband traveled from Pennsylvania to Colorado in a covered wagon in the 1800s.

 

 

 

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