I called my mom and asked about potato candy and here is what she said:
"Well, my goodness! Let me think! You know I only made it a time or two, and I don't even know where I got the recipe or if I kept it."
But she told me what she remembered and I googled it, and here is what sounds like what she made:
Old Fashioned Potato Candy
1/2 (or 1 small) boiled potato
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
About 2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
Mash potato, add butter, vanilla and enough powdered sugar to make a slightly stiff dough.
Roll out dough (on a surface dusted with powdered sugar) and spread on the peanut butter.
Roll dough up (as for jelly roll) to make a log.
Cut into pieces, (an inch or two long) let air dry for about an hour. Store in air tight container.
Makes about 2 dozen confections.
This sounds exactly like what Mom made. I saw some where melted chocolate was part of the recipe, too. I'm going to have to make this to see if it is as good as I remembered. It was a very rich candy, and I could never eat more than a piece or two in one sitting.
These sounded great, too: Dave's Irish Potato Candy which uses evaporated milk and cream of tarter; and a very simple German Potato Candy.
15 comments:
Sounds good! I'll have to try this, might be perfect for those lonesome potatoes I have left over from time to time . (Hugs) Indigo
Thank you, thank you, and thank you again! hmmmmmmmmmm Anne
I think my Mama made this a couple of times in the 50's. My Mama was a true homemaker and tried everything. Paula
sounds very interesting
O.K. I think I tried that once.
Kelli
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OMG! Thank you so much for this recipe!!!! When I was in high school all the Home Ec classes were recuited to make "buttercreme" eggs for Sr. Augustine's mission charity (Sr. Augustine was about 90 years old, and was so wonderful and cute and full of life and she taught us how to cook). Anyway, every Easter she sold thousands of these eggs and the secret to the "creaminess" of the eggs was that she made them out of mashed potatoes! Of course, I lost the recipe by the summertime but to this day I think about those eggs and NO ONE believes me when I tell them they were made out of potatoes! I should know! I was there!
LOL Whoopee!!!!!
You try it first and let me know how it is! I just can't imagine -- but then again, most people can't imagine my family throwing beans and having dinner with honey crosses on our foreheads either ;-)
PS: We dipped ours in chocolate instead of coating them in peanut butter.
mmmm.. this sounds REALLY good! Can't wait to give it a try!
Chelle
I'm glad you posted this! My Mom passed away and my Dad and I were trying to remember this recipe of hers yesterday! Thank you so much~
Angel
I never heard of this. Sounds pretty good!
Pam
I have never even heard of it! But it sounds interesting...and yummy! Jae
That's exactly what my Mom used to make too. They even served it at the elementary school that I went to about a hundred years ago and they called it desert. lol
Thanks for the posting. Now I'm gonna have to make some.
Nelishia
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I have never heard of that either!
Thanks for sharing
Lyn
i never heard of potato candy before - sounds great!
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