My dear mother (RIP) used to make peppermint patty potato candy. She would drop different food dye colors into each sectioned off piece in order to have those nice pastel colors. Then she would shape and cut. They were so smooth and delicious.
Using potatoes for sweets goes back a very long time. My grandmother (I'm in my 60's) used to use her grandmothers' recipe for mashed potato chocolates! I might have to try some. This video has reminded me of happy childhood memories!
W11 Granny I had to answer this when I saw it. My Mum used to do this when we were kids, we thought she was mad when she said it was like macaroon bars....but it was. She come from Coatbridge, near the where the factory that made it, Lees factory, we used to get all the misshapen bits to buy cheap. I am from Hamilton, Scotland, but now live in England. Every time I go up home I come back with boxes full. I popped across to your channel and saw you have no subscribers yet, so you now have one as I subbed to you xAnn x
Am I the only one who would prefer to roll the mixture into balls instead of the poop shaped logs? I have had this fudge before and it is really delicious. And yes, as someone pointed out, this is a very old recipe. Happy cooking everyone.
potato candy goes way back to at least the 19th century - it’s not contemporary by any means. on UTube, search for 'The BEST 100 year old family potato candy recipe with Alan Lubeski' - he's has the best video for potato candy - he uses peanut butter, but you can use anything. (there's no butter and tells you the measurements, the techniques, and doesn’t rush! have fun : )
Made this in Scotland years ago , mix potato and sugar, put it in a square pan in fridge for about 30 mins until firm , cut in oblongs dip in melted chocolate then in toasted coconuts, We called this Macaroons ! Put coconut on baking sheet and toast in oven
Don't forget potato candy, it looks similar to start, just it gets rolled into a type of dough &, layered with whatever (peanutbutter, nutella, whatever spread) just no Irish cream....they are kinda like those cookie rolls
Just about everybody I know has had potato candy... We never called it fudge but it was pretty much made the same. The last step ours was much thicker and rolled out with a rolling pin then coated with peanut butter, rolled up like a log, sliced and devoured.. delicious
We make ours with 2 tbs mashed potatoes and add powder sugar untill its a stiff "dough. The potatoes starch caused the powder sugar to "melt. Don't overwork the dough as it causes the candy to dry out. Keep coveted in air tight container. Add extras as desired.
Lovely cut into bars and covered in chocolate then toasted coconut. In Scotland it's called macaroon bars. You are right about the icing sugar that you need to add till you get a stiff dough. Sometimes depending on the type of potato you need more or less icing sugar.
I love your Potatoes from Idaho. We have great Kennebec Potatoes here in Maine they where a winter stable we grew up on after all we are of Irish English heritage in Maine.
It's a French recipe. We had it "Potatoe candy" around for centuries. I hate it when people try and change a name or one ingredient and claim it as their own... and she didn't do it right anyway..
I use to make real old fashioned fudge just like my Grandpa when I was a kid. And yeah that is not easy! Did you know there is a similar recipe to this using......PINTO BEANS? It's very good. I tricked a bunch of people at a party with it. EVERYONE was gobbling it lol. I didn't get the skin lumps out first time but they all thought it was coconut!😈 Thank you! I love potatoes any way they are used!🍠🍫🎄
No comment on shapes she made !! Looks like something that came out the litter box LOL Chill in fridge ! Cut square shapes , I don’t use butter makes it too soft !
I remember being in the kindergarten lunch room making some peanut butter balls with wheat germ and powdered milk? I don't remember all of what was put into the pntbtrr ? However. , I think it will be a new adventure fire trying to perfect a healthier version of this here potatoes powdered blood sugar comatose recipe!!
Butter is good for you., it's brain food.. This doesn't look like fudge or potato candy.. My PA Dutch family has been making potato candy for generations, more than 150 years.. We use 3 ingredients: potatoes, sugar (lots of sugar) and natural peanut butter.. Mash a small boiled potato and add sugar (lots of sugar) until you get a stiff dough.. Roll the dough into a very thin rectangle and spread a layer of peanut butter over it.. Roll it up the long way, let set for about an hour and slice into 1/4 to 1/2 inch pinwheels.. The peanut butter balances the sugar for a not too sweet candy..
Gail Hobby it was started a long time before that. It originally come from Ireland, the potato farmers, so would have come across the water, with the Scottish and the Irish, not just when they had the potato famine but the folks emigrating. The lady above explains how it's done in Scotland. My grt gran had a wee shop in 1910 (it was the front room of the house) she made this and sold it. xxxAnnxxx
My dear mother (RIP) used to make peppermint patty potato candy. She would drop different food dye colors into each sectioned off piece in order to have those nice pastel colors. Then she would shape and cut. They were so smooth and delicious.
Using potatoes for sweets goes back a very long time. My grandmother (I'm in my 60's) used to use her grandmothers' recipe for mashed potato chocolates! I might have to try some. This video has reminded me of happy childhood memories!
I've made mashed potato candy...
in Scotland this is the start of a macaroon bar. you shape this fondant in bars coat with chocolate and dip in toasted dessicated coconut. yummy
W11 Granny I had to answer this when I saw it. My Mum used to do this when we were kids, we thought she was mad when she said it was like macaroon bars....but it was. She come from Coatbridge, near the where the factory that made it, Lees factory, we used to get all the misshapen bits to buy cheap. I am from Hamilton, Scotland, but now live in England. Every time I go up home I come back with boxes full. I popped across to your channel and saw you have no subscribers yet, so you now have one as I subbed to you xAnn x
I honestly never saw W11 Granny !! Until I put mine up ! Good to know my memory hasn’t failed me ! Been years since I made this ....
My very favourite 💙
Am I the only one who would prefer to roll the mixture into balls instead of the poop shaped logs? I have had this fudge before and it is really delicious. And yes, as someone pointed out, this is a very old recipe. Happy cooking everyone.
potato candy goes way back to at least the 19th century - it’s not contemporary by any means. on UTube, search for 'The BEST 100 year old family potato candy recipe with Alan Lubeski' - he's has the best video for potato candy - he uses peanut butter, but you can use anything. (there's no butter and tells you the measurements, the techniques, and doesn’t rush! have fun : )
LOL, I just came from his video. My mind is spinning.
Hi. YEAH, I watched Him. He makes it look so good!
its worth watching just for alans moms commenting.
Made this in Scotland years ago , mix potato and sugar, put it in a square pan in fridge for about 30 mins until firm , cut in oblongs dip in melted chocolate then in toasted coconuts, We called this Macaroons !
Put coconut on baking sheet and toast in oven
Don't forget potato candy, it looks similar to start, just it gets rolled into a type of dough &, layered with whatever (peanutbutter, nutella, whatever spread) just no Irish cream....they are kinda like those cookie rolls
Potato Candy my family made out of mash/smashed potatoes for generations and is a very old and simple even if people have adapted it to their tastes.
Just about everybody I know has had potato candy... We never called it fudge but it was pretty much made the same. The last step ours was much thicker and rolled out with a rolling pin then coated with peanut butter, rolled up like a log, sliced and devoured.. delicious
She did not use enough confectioner's sugar...it takes at least six cups which is why hers is so runny...
We make ours with 2 tbs mashed potatoes and add powder sugar untill its a stiff "dough. The potatoes starch caused the powder sugar to "melt. Don't overwork the dough as it causes the candy to dry out. Keep coveted in air tight container. Add extras as desired.
Lovely cut into bars and covered in chocolate then toasted coconut. In Scotland it's called macaroon bars. You are right about the icing sugar that you need to add till you get a stiff dough. Sometimes depending on the type of potato you need more or less icing sugar.
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I was born and raised in Idaho how can I never heard of this before hahaha
I love your Potatoes from Idaho. We have great Kennebec Potatoes here in Maine they where a winter stable we grew up on after all we are of Irish English heritage in Maine.
Potato candy goes way back. She didn't 'create' this!!!!
Not enough chocolate or powdered sugar.
There’s less sugar in traditional fudge. Looked like turds on a plate?
It's a French recipe. We had it "Potatoe candy" around for centuries. I hate it when people try and change a name or one ingredient and claim it as their own... and she didn't do it right anyway..
This is like the old fashion Maine potatoes candy. Over 65 years old.
I'm in pa dutch territory. We made this in Home ec all the time less butter and round blls in refrigerator lumpier mash potatoes
Such an Awesome Delight to watch ! Thank You!
Velveeta Fudge is Wonderful try it sometime, I make it at Christmas Time and it goes Fast
I use to make real old fashioned fudge just like my Grandpa when I was a kid. And yeah that is not easy! Did you know there is a similar recipe to this using......PINTO BEANS? It's very good. I tricked a bunch of people at a party with it. EVERYONE was gobbling it lol. I didn't get the skin lumps out first time but they all thought it was coconut!😈 Thank you! I love potatoes any way they are used!🍠🍫🎄
So glad I saw this and intreged will make some and try it, loved this recipe,
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Now I made peanut butter potato candy for Christmas nobody would eat it said it was too sugary so I brought it home with me
No comment on shapes she made !! Looks like something that came out the litter box LOL
Chill in fridge ! Cut square shapes , I don’t use butter makes it too soft !
This is funny! Well...a live program and no redos!!
My thoughts exactly.
🤣😂🤣
I think this started during the depression when leftover mashed potatoes were made into everything!...including pancakes!
Bonnie Moerdyk My mama used to make potato cakes and we would eat them with syrup! So good!
I am seeing a lot of “candy” made with powdered sugar. It is actually fondant. The real stuff is by cooking sugar.
Measurements?
around my parts we call it potato candy
I remember being in the kindergarten lunch room making some peanut butter balls with wheat germ and powdered milk? I don't remember all of what was put into the pntbtrr ? However. , I think it will be a new adventure fire trying to perfect a healthier version of this here potatoes powdered blood sugar comatose recipe!!
Honey is needed, in my recipe. Used to mold into small balls to make into bears. Toothpick in eyes.
I've been making this since the 1970's.
I bet Nutella would be good. I needs more confectioner sugar added.
Butter is good for you., it's brain food.. This doesn't look like fudge or potato candy.. My PA Dutch family has been making potato candy for generations, more than 150 years.. We use 3 ingredients: potatoes, sugar (lots of sugar) and natural peanut butter.. Mash a small boiled potato and add sugar (lots of sugar) until you get a stiff dough.. Roll the dough into a very thin rectangle and spread a layer of peanut butter over it.. Roll it up the long way, let set for about an hour and slice into 1/4 to 1/2 inch pinwheels.. The peanut butter balances the sugar for a not too sweet candy..
@@ghostladydarkling3250 Glad you like it.. Part of it's goodness is it's simplicity..
Valletta fudge is really good. You can't taste the cheese. It just makes the fudge very creamy
I'm sure it's tastey but it looks like poop.
How much Chacolate do you use.. I didn't hear you say
Gail Hobby it was started a long time before that. It originally come from Ireland, the potato farmers, so would have come across the water, with the Scottish and the Irish, not just when they had the potato famine but the folks emigrating. The lady above explains how it's done in Scotland. My grt gran had a wee shop in 1910 (it was the front room of the house) she made this and sold it. xxxAnnxxx
Gail Hobby not enough! Add as much as you need to get the right color which should be darker.
This is chocolate flavor or not
My mom used to make potato Bon Bons
Paula Deen’s Velveeta chocolate fudge is actually very good!!
I made Velveeta fudge long before I ever heard of Paula Dean....1985..
Sounds interesting
I think a whisk would do better for mixing.
Better to substitute puffed rice cereal.....and even cooked rice for the potatoes.....?!?!
my potato candy is way way different
PLEASE!!! Don’t leave us hangin’!!! Details please?
You need to eat this ''fudge'' with a spoon.. I think this recipe is made up just to make something different..
Hi
Is it just me or does that played a candy look like turds??
It most definitely looks like somebody pooped on that plate.
Totally good Halloween practical joke candy I also like the idea when she said roll it in nuts!
Yeah this woman didn't invent potato stuff because it's been in my generation Scottish and Irish family for a hundred years
I think she needs more sugar and more chocolate, looks good though
this potato candy not fudge.
That does not look appetizing
When she cut it up it looked like turds!
Way too soft for a good fudge. Nice try though.
Too much sugar 🙏🏾