![]() ![]() Cook to softball stage (238 degrees on a candy thermometer) don't take it off the fire a moment before, and don't leave it on the fire a moment longer! I prefer to use the cold water test. ![]() Combine sugar, brown sugar, cream, milk, and butter in a heavy-bottomed sauce pan.ģ. Penuche, in my opinion, is tricky stuff to make, but it is so delicious that I haven't given up.ġ. What a find!Īt this point, it seems fair to tell you that even though I've found directions, that doesn't mean that I've had success every time I've made this recipe. I looked up other penuche recipes and found a variety of directions, but none of the recipes were exactly like Meme's either.įortunately, I have Meme's recipes (complete with the ancient panty-hose elastic that she used to keep them together in fifty-year-old shoeboxes), and I was digging through them for a different recipe when I found Meme's penuche recipe complete with directions. The next time I made it, I figured there was something that I didn't know. Meme's recipes are just like many of those that belonged to great, experienced, from-scratch cooks: they didn't include any directions. I looked up Meme's recipe for it and tried making it, but it was a complete failure-for the first many years that I made it. It wasn't until the late 1990s that I finally got to taste penuche, and I fell in love with it immediately. She and her sister Pearl made all of their candy on the 1920s Monarch range that they had in the "big house" on the farm where my first cousin and his wife now have a new home (the old house having been destroyed by fire in the early 1960s). Meme had ceased making penuche before I began assisting her with the candy making in 1985, but she occasionally would talk about it. I blogged about her fudge recipe last December, and in doing so mentioned penuche. Meme was the candy maker in our family for many years, and she taught me to make fudge and divinity. ![]() She would be so embarrassed if she knew that I credited her with this aspect of my life, but it is true nonetheless. She was also the one who unwittingly instilled in me a love for the woodburning cookstove. A small piece of penuche on a dessert plate.Īs is mentioned in the "About Me" section on the left, my great-great-aunt Meme is the person who taught me to cook. ![]()
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