This is one of my favorite Holiday candies my Mom makes!
I remember her making batch after batch to give away as Christmas gifts, my Uncle Elmo loves when it's holiday time and I make this, its such a flaky crunchy recipe...not too hard on the teeth!
Perfectly flaky and yum!

3 cups sugar
1 cup corn syrup
1/2 cup water
3 (heaping) cups of Raw Peanuts
3 Tablespoons of Butter
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons soda (heaping)

Boil sugar, syrup, and water until a thread spins.
Add Peanuts and stir continuously and cook until a gold color
Take off stove and add butter, salt, and soda. Pour on to buttered board
let cool and break apart.

Here is a recipe I created that was inspired by my grandmother for homeade pumpkin pie, This is always a huge hit in the fall for Our Oldest son's birthday its his special request and I have found through the years that even people who never liked pumpkin pie before are asking for second helpings and the recipe once they give it a try, This is very mild in flavor and just a super easy recipe, So if you want to impress your family and friends you should give this recipe a try. Every time I make this it gets rave reviews.


Susan Pittser's Pumpkin Pie Recipe
1 pack of Pillsbury Ready Roll out Pie crust
4 eggs
1 15oz can of 100% pure pumpkin
1 3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 teaspoons of Cinnamon Or the Tupperware CINNAMON/VANILLA seasoning blend
2 cans of milnot Evaporated milk (12oz each) (pet milk, carnation evaporated milk or other brand will work)

You can choose to make either TWO 9 inch pies or One 9x13 cake pan with a larger pie for larger crowd, I make the 9X13 version alot and use my Tupperware Rectangular Cake Taker to transport it to potluck and get togethers. To make the cake pan size I just put two of the pie crusts together and shape the dough out to fit.

To make the filling
Beat Eggs, Add Sugar and Pumpkin and salt and mix together add cinnamon vanilla seasoning blend and then last add the milnot to the mixture then pour the filling into your pie crust and bake at 350 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes,

You can tell if the pie is done by piercing the center of pie with a butter knife, if it comes out clean the pie is done, if it doesn't come out clean then bake at 5 minute intervals and testing until done. Let Stand and Cool and Top each piece with Cool Whip if desired, Keep refrigerated when storing leftovers.

I remember so many times helping Grandma cut up the orange slices into tiny bits to make this delicious fruit cake, it is unlike any other fruitcake you have tried,
This orange slice cake is the best moist cake and really pretty easy to make
it just is a long baking and the trickiest part seemed to be cutting up the orange slices into pea size bits! We would try with a knife or scissors for awhile and it would be so sticky you couldn't get it through the candy ***Talk about hand cramps***
So we figured out if we would dip our knife or scissor blades into flour or sugar first it would keep it from getting so messy and work the best! *if you try this recipe you will see what I mean!
The taste was so worth the efforts!!! YUM!
Oh the precious memories! This cake you can store for quite awhile and I think the longer it sets sometimes the moister it is so you don't have to worry about it spoiling quickly. Keep it in a cake taker and will last a really long time and stay super moist for the holidays!

1 lb orange slices (cut up into pea size pieces)
2 sticks butter
4 eggs
2 1/4 cups brown sugar
2 cups chopped pecans
2 1/4 cups flour

Melt Butter and let cool
Beat the eggs in a large mixing bowl,
add sugar, add butter, add flour, then
add orange slices and pecans

Bake at 250degrees for 2 hours and 45 minutes
these can be made in a bundt pan or a loaf pan
I recommend baking more than one at a time since
it is such a long baking time and
you can always eat one give the other as a gift

One of my funniest memories of this cake is when we first
got married the first Christmas I made one of these cakes to take
to my husbands grandmas house for the family get together.
There was just a few slices taken from the cake the last time
I looked and we were getting ready to leave so I told Byron's Grandma
to keep some for herself and here she came bringing me my empty cake taker!! LOL
that was so funny...she loved the cake and kept the whole thing!! I had expected to have some of the cake left to take home.....heehee
We still laugh about that, I was a little shocked with the totally empty cake taker!!! lol
needless to say it was a big hit and always is when I fix it.