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When I was young, my mother used to make a candy at Christmas, from the Joy of Cooking, 1944 edition. (Another wedding present.) It was called Maple Cream, though it contained no maple. It was a mixture of brown sugar, cream and butter that came out like a hard fudge - a little like Scottish tablet. I loved it with a passion. I've never been able to make it myself, though I've tried, and I've used the same recipe, with my mother's notes in the margin. My ex-husband was able to make it.

In the last few years I've been enjoying sweets less and less. I like creamy things, not sweet things. Popcorn (with butter and salt) is my weakness, not chocolate.

There are no particular treats I associate with Easter. When I was a kid we'd visit my mother's German friend and her family, and I didn't like the German Easter treats at all.

I wish I could be nine years old again, though. I'd love the chocolate Spider-Man figures.

Speaking of sculpted chocolate...

Date: 2009-04-12 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com
...I happened to see an oddity yesterday at a local Shoppers Drug Mart location, since sold out completely: the chocolate avatar of the USS Defiant of Deep Space Nine fame.

Date: 2009-04-13 02:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auriaephiala.livejournal.com
Re making Maple Cream: maybe success has something to do with the exact temperature you prepare it at? When making other candy (i.e. Divinity Fudge), I've noticed some are very particular whether you take them to soft ball stage or hard ball, etc. So you might need a candy thermometer. (Or I might be totally out to lunch on this...)

I far prefer salty snacks to sweet, myself. OTOH I do love sour-sweet, like lemon meringue pie (my m-i-l made that tonight -- yumm!) or sour jellies.

Date: 2009-04-13 02:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmegaera.livejournal.com
And why, pray tell, do you have to be nine in order to possess a chocolate Spider-Man figure???

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