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life + food TODAY'S RECIPES TO GO! WWW.MAYSVILLE-ONLINE.COM/LIFESTYLES MONDAY, 02.27.2012 | B1 JANE CLINE KABLER [email protected] Traditions still prevail in the cold wintertime in Kentucky. The best of cooks pull out the heavy pans, set in the heavy cream, and extra sugar and wait for the right weather to begin their pulled cream candy making. This is an old tradition in Kentucky and not found many other places. You can usually find cream candy in speciality shops in Louisville, Lexing- ton, Paris and Maysville. Most pulled candy in other states is taffy. Taffy is made with similar ingredients but not cooked as long. My mother, Sallie Slack Haughaboo made many, many pounds of cream candy and I learned from her. In later years she had a stainless steel hook made and used it to help her when pulling a big batch. A big batch is the six cups of sugar recipe which makes almost five pounds. At my house, usually several get togeth- er for an evening and it works like a mini factory. One cooks, two clean the marble and grease it with butter, the strong men pull the candy and the women cut it when it is ready. While all of this is going on the cook puts on another batch. In our home for 15 years, two other families and a total of six children usu- ally spent 12 hours cooking, pulling and cutting cream candy on a Saturday each December. All the candy at the end of the evening was divided and used for entertaining and gift giving. We would make 120 pounds in an evening. I always doubled the recipe and it made a total of five pounds. Cream candy making is an art and actually few people can succeed. It takes practice and even with the hun- dreds of pounds we have made, we still lost a batch once in a while. KABLER’S CHATTER Old-time cream candy making: A Kentucky treasure COOKING THE CANDY | Use a heavy pan for cooking the cream candy and a candy thermometer. POUR HOT CANDY ON COLD MARBLE | Candy will be caramel colored after cooking,left. WORK THE CANDY | Work the candy with your hands as you begin to pull. Sort of massage it and stretch it, below. WORK AND STRETCH CANDY | Make candy into a ball and stretch and pull out long. Keep pulling until white and fairly stiff. STRETCH INTO A ROPE AND CUT| Using sharp scissors, cut pulled candy into small pieces. Cool. Store. Last week, we covered frequently asked questions about coupon overage. This week, we’ll tackle another dilemma for beginners: The difference between man- ufacturer and store coupons. Dear Jill, I have a $1 coupon for a brand of cheese. The coupon has the supermarket’s logo on it. Is it a store coupon? Can I use it at a different store? — Roger H. Dear Jill, I have always been under the impres- sion that if a coupon says it’s a manufacturer cou- pon, any store can accept it, even if another store’s name is advertised on the coupon. However, I just ran across a manufacturer coupon with the dis- claimer that it could only be used at a particular store. I would appreciate it if you addressed this is- sue. — Pam R. Dear Roger and Pam, Let’s start by looking at the difference between a store coupon and a manufac- turer coupon. A manufacturer coupon is issued by the company that makes the product. All manufacturer coupons share a few characteristics: a standard GS1 barcode, a physical mailing address in the fine print — so the retailer knows where the coupon should be sent for redemption — and the words “manufacturer coupon” printed somewhere on the surface. A store coupon is a little different, both in form and function. The barcode will look different from the one on a manufac- turer coupon. It’s an internal store bar- code that can only be read by that store’s registers. A different supermarket or retailer register would not be able to scan it. A store coupon typically has no mailing address on it, either. It’s for the store’s use only. A store coupon may say “store cou- pon” or “retailer coupon.” A store coupon SIMPLE TIPS FOR SUPER-COUPONING Back to Basics: Manufacturer v. Store Coupons JILL CATALDO I hope all you readers are doing great. This is Susan, Lovina’s second oldest daughter and I am 16 years old. Last week I decided that I wanted to write the column since my brothers and sisters will be home on Friday and Monday, which is their mid- winter break. Mom usually writes her column on Monday mornings, but I thought that with all of the children being home it might be extra noisy and busy. So I thought I’d give her some help by writing the column! I am not much of a writer, but I will try my best. I just came inside after working with Minnie. Minnie is a miniature pony that I am training for a family in our church. The family has three little boys. I want to tame Minnie so that they will be able to drive her. Minnie is a very small pony but she is strong. She pulls our little pony wagon without a problem. I really enjoy working with her so it will be hard to see her go back to her owners after she is fully trained. Minnie is the second pony that I have trained. Our miniature pony, Tiger, was the first. Tiger is a bigger kind of a min- iature pony. He is a stallion and was a lot harder to train than Minnie. He is also a lot more stubborn and not as gentle as Minnie. I would not SUSAN EICHER The Amish Cook 1 2 4 5 3 See COUPONS, B2 See CANDY, B2 See AMISH, B2
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Traditions still prevail in the cold wintertime in Kentucky. The best of cooks pull out the heavy pans, set in the heavy cream, and extra sugar and wait for the right weather to begin their pulled cream candy making.
This is an old tradition in Kentucky and not found many other places. You can usually find cream candy in speciality shops in Louisville, Lexing-ton, Paris and Maysville. Most pulled candy in other states is taffy. Taffy is made with similar ingredients but not cooked as long. My mother, Sallie Slack Haughaboo made many, many pounds of cream candy and I learned from her. In later years she had a stainless steel hook made and used it to help her when pulling a big batch. A big batch is the six cups of sugar recipe which makes almost five pounds.
At my house, usually several get togeth-er for an evening and it works like a mini factory. One cooks, two clean the marble and grease it with butter, the strong men pull the candy and the women cut it when it is ready. While all of this is going on the cook puts on another batch.
In our home for 15 years, two other families and a total of six children usu-ally spent 12 hours cooking, pulling and cutting cream candy on a Saturday each December. All the candy at the end of the evening was divided and used for entertaining and gift giving. We would make 120 pounds in an evening. I always doubled the recipe and it made a total of five pounds. Cream candy making is an art and actually few people can succeed. It takes practice and even with the hun-dreds of pounds we have made, we still lost a batch once in a while.
KABLER’S CHATTER
Old-time cream candy making: A Kentucky treasure
COOKING THE CANDY | Use a heavy pan for cooking the cream candy and a candy thermometer.
POUR HOT CANDY ON COLD MARBLE | Candy will be caramel colored after cooking,left.
WORK THE CANDY | Work the candy with your hands as you begin to pull. Sort of massage it and stretch it, below.
WORK AND STRETCH CANDY | Make candy into a ball and stretch and pull out long. Keep pulling until white and fairly stiff.
STRETCH INTO A ROPE AND CUT| Using sharp scissors, cut pulled candy into small pieces. Cool. Store.
Last week, we covered frequently asked questions about coupon overage. This week, we’ll tackle another dilemma for beginners: The difference between man-ufacturer and store coupons.
Dear Jill,I have a $1 coupon for a brand of cheese.
The coupon has the supermarket’s logo on it. Is it a store coupon? Can I use it at a different store? — Roger H.
Dear Jill,I have always been under the impres-
sion that if a coupon says it’s a manufacturer cou-pon, any store can accept it, even if another store’s name is advertised on the coupon. However, I just ran across a manufacturer coupon with the dis-claimer that it could only be used at a particular store. I would appreciate it if you addressed this is-sue. — Pam R.
Dear Roger and Pam,Let’s start by looking at the difference
between a store coupon and a manufac-turer coupon.
A manufacturer coupon is issued by the company that makes the product. All manufacturer coupons share a few characteristics: a standard GS1 barcode, a physical mailing address in the fine print — so the retailer knows where the coupon should be sent for redemption — and the words “manufacturer coupon” printed somewhere on the surface.
A store coupon is a little different, both in form and function. The barcode will look different from the one on a manufac-turer coupon. It’s an internal store bar-code that can only be read by that store’s registers. A different supermarket or retailer register would not be able to scan it. A store coupon typically has no mailing address on it, either. It’s for the store’s use only. A store coupon may say “store cou-pon” or “retailer coupon.” A store coupon
SIMPLE TIPS FOR SUPER-COUPONING
Back to Basics: Manufacturer v. Store Coupons
JILL CATALDO
I hope all you readers are doing great. This is Susan, Lovina’s second oldest daughter and I am 16 years old. Last week I decided that I wanted to write the column since my brothers and sisters will be home on Friday and Monday, which is their mid-winter break. Mom usually writes her column on Monday mornings, but I thought that with all of the children being home it might be extra noisy and busy. So I thought I’d give her some help by writing the column! I am not much of a writer, but I will try my best.
I just came inside after working with Minnie. Minnie is a miniature pony that I am training for a family in our church. The family has three little boys. I want to tame Minnie so that they will be able to drive her. Minnie is a very small pony but she is strong. She pulls our little pony wagon without a problem. I really enjoy working with her so it will be hard to see her go back to her owners after she is fully trained. Minnie is the second pony that I have trained. Our miniature pony, Tiger, was the first. Tiger is a bigger kind of a min-iature pony. He is a stallion and was a lot harder to train than Minnie. He is also a lot more stubborn and not as gentle as Minnie. I would not
SUSAN EICHER
The Amish Cook
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