With a sense of satisfaction, but also a feeling of relief, I carried all my candy making equipment to the basement. Down went the spices, food coloring, the colorful bags, the containers, the molds, the paper liners, and a bit of smugness for my accomplishments!
As far as we can recall, about 55 years ago, my sister Nancy and I went to a candy making seminar put on by the Va Tech Extension Office. That seminar led to years of candy making with my sisters and became a tradition for each of our holiday celebrations.
For me, it became a way I could gift my grown children and grandchildren with a gift that, literally, money could not buy! Chocolates, hard candy, and peanut brittle, made with all the love this octogenarian can muster,says all I need to say in greetings for this season of celebration.
The best part of this tradition is passing in on. Little by little the daughters are learning just how peanut brittle should look in the pan to be just right, how pizza cutters make great hard candy cutters as it cools, and how the aromas in the kitchen, as you work, dwell in your mind much longer than the fatigue of a day of candy making.
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