Grandma Blanche’s Homemade Caramels.
Y’all this is one of my most treasured memories and recipes. It is my great grandma Blanche’s recipe for caramels. She made these every year for Christmas and grandma Jean and mom also used her recipe each year to do them as well. Mom and I are the only ones left in our family making them that I know of. I always looked forward as a child going to her house for cookies and candies that she always had for us. But Christmas was extra special. She had her homemade, hand wrapped in was paper caramels. I never left without a pocket full of them. Remember, recipes are memories and this one is a big one for me. Let me know what you think about her version and y’all enjoy.
1/2 lb oleo or butter
2 c sugar
2 cans of eagle brand milk
1/2 c flour
2 c light corn syrup
Melt butter in very heavy pan, add sugar, syrup and mix well. Boil over medium heat 5 minutes stir well with stick. Remove from heat and add 1 1/2 c Eagle Brand , stir and mix Add 1/2 c flour with remainint 1/2 c Eagle Brand, stir all together. Boil over medium heat until turns medium brown and forms ball that will stick together
Stir all way through at last add 1 1/2 t vanilla
Add NO salt, butter takes care of that
Is the “eagle brand milk” in the recipe sweetened condensed milk? Or is it just regular canned milk that people sometimes put in their coffee?
This recipe looks great and I’d love to make it for Christmas this year, thanks for posting. 🙂
It is the sweetened condensed milk, not the evaporated.
Oh my!! Words cannot describe how wonderful this caramel recipe is. I made several times over Christmas and EVERYONE raved about them. I mean EVERYONE! I made a batch one day and my husband, daughter and I ate the WHILE batch in two days. We couldn’t stop eating them!! One word of advise……DO NOT USE WAX PAPER……make sure you use parchment paper. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. It is definitely a favorite and will be a “pass down ” family recipe.
Approximately how many caramel apples does one recipe make?
Anywhere from 12-18 depending on thickness of the caramel
Are you using salted butter?
yes Jenifer
I have never heard of flour in a candy recipe. What does the flour contribute? Could it successfully be eliminated? Thanks.
you might want to revise your recipe to state whether you are using Eagle brand evaporated or condensed milk…they make both