With kind of candy do you remember?
Growing up I remember penny candy at the small store in our town. You could get one or two pieces of candy for a penny. If you had a nickel, you could buy 5 to 10 pieces of candy. You could buy candy bars for 3 cents or for 5 cents.
In the summer time to remember the pioneers, my mother would make honey candy. We would pull and stretch the candy just like taffy. It reminded us of how nice it was to have candy we could buy.
Trick or Treat candy at Halloween were a variety of different candies. Today most of the candy handed out seems to be mini chocolate candy bars.
Homemade candy was a part of getting ready for Christmas. Standing and stirring a pan full of fudge to prevent it from turning to sugar was a lot of work, but the results were wonderful tasting. Beating the egg whites and adding the hot syrup to make divinity was fun to do. Testing the consistency of the syrup in a cup of water was fun and delicious too as you got to eat the tested portion. Pouring hot syrup over peanuts to make peanut brittle was fun too. Sometimes the candy didn't come out just right, yet we would eat it any way. When it turned out just right, it was so good.
At a dinner with friends some started talking about the kind of candy they had when they went to the movies. They would buy the long lasting kind of candy so it would last through most of the movie.
When my daughters came to visit this year, they brought ingredients for making good for you chocolate. It was a lot of work melting the cocoa butter at a very low temperature. Then we added different ingredients like nuts and fruits. The best ones had lots of nuts and fruits in them.
