Of course Store Bought Candy isn't really just candy from the store. If it were, you wouldn't need a recipe for it. The title is meant to suggest that this tastes as good as store-bought candy, which is apparently preferable to/ fancier than the plain old homemade type. Now that store-bought candy is the expected norm and homemade candy shows off that the maker had the time/ skill/ perhaps specialized ingredients to make it, the special candy is the homemade type. I love the way the title encapsulates a moment when the value of women's time and the family's money were regarded differently than they are today.
Of course, your sugar doesn't have to know that. They just have to like extra-sweet sweetened condensed milk mixed with coconut and nuts, then covered in chocolate chips mixed with paraphine/ paraffin. Remember to get the food-grade kind!
12 oz chocolate chips, 8 oz paraffin. That seemed like a high paraffin to chocolate ratio (2/5 if you do the math), so I looked online to find out what the recommended paraffin to chocolate ratio is. People these days seem to think that a good ratio is 1/10 or less. Enjoy your waxy candy. Granted it will hold up better in tropical climates, not that it's tropical around here (I woke up to another half inch or so of snow on my car, and I just saw that it was snowing even harder when I looked outside)
ReplyDeleteThat does seem like a really high ratio. Chocolate probably wasn't that good back then, though, so maybe they didn't care how diluted it got.
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