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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Great Granny’s Cook Book – Candies: Carnival & Circus Favorites!
Hystoria thought you might like to try making carnival candies at home! From Great Granny’s 1947 copy of “The American Woman’s Cook Book”, we bring you mounds of sugar! Before you begin, please be sure to have all equipment … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Magic
Tagged almonds, butter, candied fruit, candy, candy making, caramels, carnival, chocolate, circus, coconut balls, cream, creamy candy, divinity, fair, festival, fondant, fudge, glace fruits, glace nuts, maple, marshmallow, marzipan, milk, molasses, panocha, peanut brittle, popcorn, popcorn balls, pralines, pulled candy, salted peanuts, sugar, taffy, Turkish Delight, vanilla
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The Organ Grinder & His Monkey
Organ grinders were a special people who brought smiles to the many faces of adults and children alike during very difficult times – war; high unemployment, and so on. If we could please keep our angry thoughts and comments pertaining to … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Entertainment, Wartime
Tagged busking, entertainment, monkey, Organ Grinder, street performance
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Our Fancy – The Peanut Butter Solution: List of Ingredients
List of Ingredients: 1 really ripe banana 5 dead flies 1 rotten egg 3 licorice leaves A fistful of kitty litter 3 Connie Crisps 3 Crosbie Crackers 9 spoons of soil, a glass of pepper’s fizz and a spoonful of … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cooking Magic, Entertainment, Our Fancies
Tagged a glass of pepper's fizz, a spoonful of peanut butter, abandoned, art, but not too much, child labour, concoction, factory, fire, fist full of kitty litter, five dead flies, ghosts, haunted house, haunted mansion, homeless, kidnapping, magic, movie, nine spoons of soil, one rotten egg, paintbrushes, ripe banana, soccer, The Fright, The Peanut Butter Solution, three Connie Crisps, three Crosbie Crackers, three licorice leaves
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