How to make.... neat recipes you can do on a rainy day!
GUMMI BEARS
1 small box gelatin with sugar (any flavor)
7 envelopes unflavored gelatine
1/2 cup water
Mix in a saucepan until the mixture resembles play dough. Place pan over low heat and stir until melted. When completely melted, pour into plastic candy molds, and place in the freezer for 5 minutes.
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ROCK CANDY
4 cups granulated sugar
1 cup water
Food coloring
Clean glass jar
String, cut into 6-inch lengths
Pencil
In a medium saucepan, heat 2 cups of the sugar and the water. Stir until the sugar is completely dissolved. Gradually add a few drops of the food coloring of your choice and the additional sugar, stirring continuously until all the sugar is dissolved. Pour the solution into a clean glass jar and tie the pieces of string to the pencil and suspend them across the mouth of the jar so that the ends hang into the sugar water. Crystals suitable to eat will form in an hour and continue for several days to a week. Pieces can be broken off and eaten after the first hour.
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FRUIT ROLL-UPS
6 to 8 slices white bread
1/2 cup (1 stick) margarine
6 to 8 teaspoons jam or jelly
Some cinnamon/sugar
Roll out bread slices until flat. Melt margarine. Brush both sides of each slice with margarine. Place on cookie sheet. Spoon on 1 teaspoon jam per slice spread evenly. Roll up bread; place seam side down on cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees F for 15 minutes. While hot, dust with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar.
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JELL-OŽ POPCORN BALLS
1 cup light KaroŽ syrup
1 small box any flavor gelatin
1 cup granulated sugar
For varied colors, use different color gelatin. Bring KaroŽ syrup, sugar and gelatin to a boil. Pour over 4 quarts of popcorn and mix well. Form into balls.
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PRETZEL SPARKLERS
1 package pretzel rods
White chocolate
Sprinkles
Melt chocolate over very low heat. Dip pretzel rods in melted chocolate about halfway. Roll in sprinkles. Let dry on wax paper. Change the sprinkles color to match the season - red and green for Christmas, red, white and blue for the Fourth of July, orange and black for Halloween, etc.
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SLUSHERS
1 package unsweetened Kool-Aid drink mix, any flavor
2 cups water
1/2 to 3/4 cup granulated sugar
4 cups ice
In a blender, combine Kool-Aid, water and sugar. Blend. Add all the ice and blend. Pour into cups, and drink through a straw.
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SOFT PRETZELS
2 (16 ounce) loaves frozen bread dough
1 egg white, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon water
Coarse salt
Separate thawed bread into 24 (1 1/2-inch) balls. Roll each ball into a rope 14 1/2-inches long. Have children plan and design pretzel shapes (letters or numerals). Put pretzels one inch apart on greased cookie sheet. Let stand for 20 minutes.
Brush with combined egg white and water. Sprinkle with coarse salt. Place a shallow pan containing 1 inch of boiling water on bottom rack of oven; bake pretzels at 350 degrees on rack above water for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
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