Potato Candy! Please!
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
March 6, 2019 7:22am CST
Some of you may remember my discussion of a few months ago. It was a treat that I made for Christmas. I had suggested that I might make some potato candy for the following day (Christmas Day) and my cousin jumped at that and all but made me promise her I'd make it.
Well fast forward a few months and she's been nagging at me to make it again. This is usually a Christmas time treat but I will be making some either today or tomorrow for her.
Now it's off to the grocery store to pick up some of the necessities.
For this candy, I only need a potato, I believe I might have enough of the other ingredients that are required.
What are your Wednesday plans?
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9 responses
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Mar 19
Yes. Though let me clarify, when I hear "mashed potatoes" I think of butter and milk being added. This is just a potato that is mashed up and sugar added to it to facilitate a dough.
Why can't you eat it? Sugar?
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
6 Mar 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum Exactly what I intended and what it is for us a "mashed potato" a potato that is mashed with a fork. I am seriously allergic to peanuts.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
6 Mar 19
@KlyliePot Is the question for me? Many people are allergic to peanuts.
@florelway (23339)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
6 Mar 19
It's the beginning of the Lenten Season for us Catholics. This is a fasting and abstinence day so I refrained from eating meat and much. I only indulge in a full meal at dinner time with rice and fish.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Mar 19
Yes, I forgot that it was Lent. I do not partake as I am not religious.
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@Debscrochet (1947)
• United States
9 Mar 19
Oh i've never heard of that. Sounds pretty interesting.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
9 Mar 19
It's delicious but very laden with sugar.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
10 Mar 19
@Debscrochet Fairly easy. Just slightly time consuming.
I can tell you how I make it, if you'd like. There are recipes online that slightly differ from the way I was taught.
@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
7 Mar 19
My Wednesday plans where not fun. We went up taking our 8 year old to the doctor and getting her medicin. Now today I have a sick 4 year old. I think it’s a cold but he could be getting strep like his sister. The little butt head didn’t head my wanting of not drink his sister’s drink.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Mar 19
Aw, I'm sorry your babies are sick. I hope that they start to feel better soon.
My cousins give their children a teaspoon of elderberry syrup a day. They still get sick sometimes but it keeps sickness at bay.
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@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
7 Mar 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum it doesn’t help for infections. Strep is all bacteria based so there is much to do to avoid other then wash wash wash. The littlest might have it too he has throw up a good few times but virus are like bacteria it just had to run it’s course.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Mar 19
@ShyBear88 Oh yikes! Sorry they have strep. I'vee had that maybe once or twice in my life. I am glad as I am such a baby with a normal throat ache.
Hope they get better soon and it doesn't spread to the rest of the house.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Mar 19
Ooh that sounds fun. Any particular decade of music?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
9 Mar 19
@Courtlynn Sounds like fun.
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@Courtlynn (67089)
• United States
9 Mar 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum no. All different categories. Makes it even better
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Mar 19
It's not really a cookie. It's a confectionary type treat. You use 1 lb confectioner's sugar, one small potato that is boiled and mashed, you add to this the confectioner's sugar and one stick of butter (3/4 cup) and combine this. Then roll it out and slather peanut butter on it.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Mar 19
@Nevena83 Very yummy, but of course, also very high in sugar.
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@Nevena83 (66063)
• Serbia
7 Mar 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum Sounds interesting.I've never heard of that treat.
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
6 Mar 19
We made that a few times when I was a kid. It's a good way to deal with leftover potatoes but it doesn't take much.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Mar 19
We've never made it with left over potatoes, atleast not to my knowledge. This was always made around Christmas. My grandmother would make it the night before, the same time she made the pies.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Mar 19
One batch of this is 24 pieces. I am going to only make the batch and give my cousin 12 pieces and keep 12 pieces for myself. She has been nagging me about it, good-naturedly of course. I am not sure why she hasn't asked her brother, who also has the recipe for this. It's a family tradition.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Mar 19
It is raining with thunderstorms so no going out today.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Mar 19
Sounds like a good time to just read.
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