We have made many of the recipes from our Little House Cookbook. To date this Molasses on Snow had the biggest learning curve! It also was the most fun! My son headed out to fill pans with snow from the 22 plus inches that had recently fallen and left them outside for a bit to make the pans good and cold. Meanwhile I heated up the dark molasses and brown sugar to a boil to get to a temp over 245 F! Boy did it STINK! YUKKKKK. We kept the faith and went out retrieved our pans and poured the sticky stinky syrup in the snow filled pans! Quickly it hardened and we picked it up to try a bit……..OH YUMMMMMM!! We were shocked! It is quite delicious. HOWEVER. We found you can’t really store it, it needs to be colder than the freezer can keep it maybe?? Next time we will not make big globs and break it up, but rather make thinner shapes and hope for better results. At any rate it is delicious and we can see how it got stuck in their teeth and why it was such a desired Christmas treat for the family! Yummy yum yum. During the process my son and I talked about how they would have used a fire (he wishes we could have!), what a treat it was, and what stories we read about with this candy in. This makes the stories even more real to us both!
I highly recommend reading these books with your children. We have thoroughly enjoyed it so far this school year.
Peace.
