Happy National Candy Cane Day! #foodholidays #RAHFood It makes sense that today its national candy cane day, what with taking down all the Christmas decorations. You have to do something with all those candy canes, right? My vote is to eat them while stirring your hot chocolate with another. Mmm, peppermint hot chocolate on a cold winter night. Chicago confectioners the Bunte Brothers filed one of the earliest patents for candy cane making machines in the early 1920s. Meanwhile, in 1919 in Albany, Georgia, Bob McCormack began making candy canes for local children. By the middle of the century his company (originally the Famous Candy Company, then the Mills-McCormack Candy Company, and later Bobs Candies) had become one of the worlds leading candy cane producers. But candy cane manufacturing initially required a fair bit of labor that limited production quantities. The canes had to be bent manually as they came off the assembly line in order to create their J shape, and breakage often ran over 20 percent. It was McCormacks brother-in-law, a seminary student in Rome named Gregory Harding Keller, who used to spend his summers back home working in the candy factory. In 1957, now ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Little Rock, Keller patented his invention, the Keller Machine which automated the process of twisting soft candy into spiral striping and then cutting them into precise lengths as candy canes. Fr. Keller and his machine gained national fame in the 1960s when he was a contestant on the popular TV show Whats My Line. All that is very interesting... on to the part you all read these for. Good day, Foodies! Crush up about 3/4 cup of your favorite candy canes and add them to the recipe for today with the chocolate chips. Double Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients 1 cup white flour 1 cup sugar 1 cup chocolate chips 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup melted margarine Steps 1. Gather your ingredients and lightly grease a cookie sheet. 2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 3. Mix sugar, margarine, vanilla, and egg in a mixing bowl. 4. Mix flour and cocoa powder in a smaller bowl. 5. Add baking soda and salt. 6. Slowly pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients while stirring. 7. Add chocolate chips and stir. 8. Drop spoonfuls of the dough onto greased cookie sheet. 9. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes each batch. Reverend Ruben Haws -Dum Vivo, Spero.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:00:41 +0000
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