Recipe for cooking red peanut patties

Desserts to Go with Coffee and Tea :: Candies and Confections

Red Peanut Patties

These are just like the old-fashioned ones wrapped in cellophane that you can still buy in some stores today.

2 1/2 c. sugar
2/3 c. white corn syrup
1 c. milk
2 1/2 c. raw peanuts
4 Tbsp. butter
1 c. powdered’ sugar
Red paste food coloring

Cook sugar, white corn syrup, milk and raw peanuts slowly until they reach the soft ball stage on a candy thermometer. This may take 1 hour.

Remove from heat and add butter, powdered\sugar and enough red paste food coloring to make a bright red. Stir until the mixture begins to thicken "real good." Drop by big spoonsful onto wax paper.

When cool, wrap each in plastic wrap.