Here are a couple vintage black walnut candy recipes
Black Walnut-Chocolate Candy
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 3 cups sugar
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 1/2 cup black walnuts, chopped fine
- *2 tablespoons shaved parowax
- 1 pound milk chocolate or 1 pound semisweet chocolate bits
Cook milk and sugar for 10 minutes after mixture starts to boil. Add butter and syrup, a spoonful at a time. Cook 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Add nuts and boil to soft-ball stage or 238 degrees. Remove from heat; cool until warm. Stir with a wooden spoon until the mixture starts to hold its shape. Put on waxed paper. With buttered hands, work like bread dough. Divide in half. Roll half between waxed paper until 3/8 inch thick. Slice in 3/4 inch squares. Place on waxed paper-lined cookie sheet. Work remainder until smooth. Pinch off 3/4 inch ball. Roll in buttered hands and flatten into a patty. While walnut mixture is cooling, put parowax in top of double boiler to melt. Add milk chocolate and melt over hot water, not boiling. Start dipping the first squares made. If chocolate gets too stiff, put back on hot water. Dip with 2 forks.
*if you can't find the parowax in your grocery store cooking isle try a kitchen store that sells Wilton's cake products or a Walmart. If not, try a health food store - they may carry it. You may ask some of grandmas friends as they may preserve jams and jellies and use parowax. Parowax can also be named parafin wax.
