My dad has been perfecting his candy making skills for over 25 years. Every year he makes many, many pounds of candy, of which we have consumed more than our fair share. A few years back, we decided that we should learn from him how to do this candy-making thing, since it is very beneficial to learn from someone who already knows what they are doing. Beginning candy makers make a lot of mistakes (usually tasty mistakes that don't look too well), so if we can learn from someone who already knows what they are doing we won't make so many mistakes.
Anyway, yesterday we spent about six hours making candy with Dad and came home with about ten pounds of candy (we used a little over five pounds of chocolate). We made chocolate covered cherries, peanut butter cups and turtles. I would have loved to have made more, but there is only so much time in a day :-(
Here Nina is getting a lesson from Grandpa on the proper temperature for the carmel/ nut mixture when making turtles.
Molly and Emily painting the chocolate into the molds for the peanut butter cups.
What I've learned over the past few years is that candy-making is all about proper temperature, keeping the chocolate "uncontaminated", and paying attention to detail.
Thanks, Dad, for teaching us! It is always great spending the day with you. Thank you, too, for your patience in doing this candy thing with all my kids running around. I know it's not the peaceful environment your used to when making your candy, but you put up with us so patiently! Next year we'll do raspberry cremes :-)
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