Recipes from Ollie J -- Peanut Fudge Candy Redux

If you've been following along the last year or so, you've been seeing lots of references to the grandmas, and the various recipes that have been discovered in family boxes and passed down as part of the family lore. I've been trying to test and tweak some of the recipes to pass along to the nieces and nephews and other branches of my extended "families."

I first attempted to make this one in November but was thwarted by rancid dry milk. I actually found dry milk in the coffee/tea/filter section of the local emporium, and have marked the container where the excess is stored, so I'm not surprised when I go to use it the next time!

Just looking at this you know it's going to be sweet. 1 cup of syrup AND a cup of powdered sugar? Makes my teeth ache already.

Peanut Fudge Candy

1 cup peanut butter (creamy)
1 cup syrup (Karo, white)
1 1/4 cup dry milk (in this case, 1 full packet and part of another)
1 1/4 cup confectionery sugar (powdered)

Mix all ingredients well, and then make little ball. Press into 1/4 inch thickness.

I skipped the pressing part of this, and just made this very stiff and sticky dough into little bite-sized balls. I filled 4 layers of this Ziploc container with over 100 little bites of peanut buttery fudge. Since there were so many holiday parties, I slipped these into the gift tins, along with rocky road fudge and brittle.