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Do you think I can put pumpkin spice into the mix before boiling??? Maybe even cinnamon?
Excellent video, Max! My grandmother was from Hiawatha , Ks., and was born in 1917, so I wonder how many of those things she would have remembered?
Spooky-chu! ❤
I remember when Halloween was spelled with an apostrophe.
I bet Hiawatha's costume contest prizes were all donated by local merchants, and when they came around to ask for donations, some local merchant was like, "Oh, finally! I finally found a use for those salt cellars nobody's been buying!"
I’m starting to notice that vinegar was the Vaseline of the kitchen, it was put on and in everything.
When I was in my early 20's, my mother, brother & I became entranced with making our own salt-water taffy. We did burn our hands a lot on the hot sugar, and spent a good deal of time pulling it while it cooled, but it WAS delicious.
I believe I would rather suck on it!
I wonder if what they refer to as 'sugar' is different than the refined white sugar we know today?
I'm having a Mandela Effect moment. The entire history of Halloween is completely different than I remember it. Just another day in this weird timeline whete the Monopoly Man never wore a monocle.
Annoying af
I had an sleepover for my birthday when I was a kid. My mom had us make hard crack taffy. I still remember it at 72. It was really fun and delicious!
My parents were originally from Hiawatha Kansas! We heard a lot about the big parade and entertainments that happened annually there. Mom told us that trick or treating was regulated to the day after Halloween. She would hand out her homemade popcorn balls to our trick-or-treaters — talk about sticky!!
I used to make hard candy a lot. Never used vinegar though. I might try it.
I have truly become addicted to your recipes. And I have your cookbook, so I'm going to give this a go. I wonder if you could use a dough hook.
I used to make this when I was a kiddo 🙂 very nostalgic video! thank you!
I'm still a HUGE fan of Necco Wafers haha
I've got grape wine vinegar going from last year. I'll bet that will make great taffy.
Bonfire night is nothing to do with Halloween.
Good morning Max
bangor maine…. why is maine always wrapped up in boring stuff. sounds exciting, but its actually mind numbing.
I dont like it when people in authority use the word "sane"
Back in the mid 70s, our minister and his wife hosted a taffy pull at their house. I was about 13 at the time and everyone had a blast. None of the kids had ever experienced such "hilarity." In total, we had about 15 or 16 young teens laughing and making a mess. I recall the minister's wife looking a bit frazzled but she was very gracious about the whole messy ordeal. Thankfully there were extra parents volunteering to help clean up. It was considered an old fashioned activity at that point in time; I doubt many people today have even heard of such a thing today. The taffy was delicious and we all returned home tired because pulling the taffy took a long time and some elbow grease.
My aunt made this taffy candy perfectly, this was indeed the recipe and she never measured anything.
Hey Max.
I would like to see if it's possible to make the softer taffy version as a flavored filling with the harder concoction as a shell.
You're probably busy with other stuff, but if you see this, you're gonna think about it and want to find a way to do it and make a video about it because you love me like that.
Its next year :O
The idea of giving a bunch of sugar-high rowdy kids pocket knives as a gift is both hysterical and terrifying.
I would straight up die if I buttered my hands. That's such a stressful idea. I hate the feel of stuff on my hands.
Great pulling technique Max!! Latex gloves are most Definitely the way to go!
There are actually sugar work gloves available, but they can be difficult to find (easier to find online)…
It's interesting, living in a country where having sane events is considered newsworthy because it's such a departure from the norm.
what is with the pokemon? icu pikachu…
Well you did do something related to candy bars one year later, even if it wasn't a review. Your Baby Ruth Cookies video is a perfect complement to this candy.
I love vinegar taffy. I used to help my aunt make it and pull and twist it. Burned my hands a few times.
My sister and I used to make something similar to this, but corn syrup was the main ingredient. I remember one time we didn't get it hot enough and it stayed so gooey we ended up throwing it out. You really do need a proper candy themometer and need to pay attention to it.
lol, this sounds like a germaphobe's nightmare.. I don't even eat my co-worker's food at pot lucks..
Rest in peace to my grandmother who made the best pigs in a blanket
11:20
Thanks for the receipt, i love keeping old traditions alive!! Also where did the smooched jack o lantern on the counter come from? Its very cute!!
I will never agree to call Necco Waffers "premium"
Omg! I love this episode— Love the narrative. Xoxo x!
I've been wanting to try this with the old timey molasses candy recipe on the TV show Firefly's official cookbook for a long time. I'm an art teacher and share my ventures so I would love to make them decorative. Were they ever traditionally colored? I'd love stripes or better yet, an image inside the hand pulled candy that you can see when you break or cut them. I'm guessing the vinegar candies show brighter colors than the molasses. I love watching candy making more than I like eating them, lol. I can't handle the stuff sticking in my teeth.
I was in a Hiawatha Halloween parade and won the costume contest and played in a marching band. they still go all out the week before. I’m going this year.
This episode made me so happy. My grandparents used to make candy and wrap it in wax paper. If memory serves it was a little later than Halloween, but it was nice to remember those handmade candies I grew up with. 🙂
Thank you for explaining the bonfire scene in Meet Me In St Louis. My favorite musical of all time. I borrowed it from my small town library when I was a kid because Judy garland was in it. Anyway I enjoyed your history lesson very much. And I shared it with my friends
November 5 2024 will be quite the "remember remember…." of mr fawkes night this year. My neighbours are receiving soul cakes and ginger cakes, I thank you Max for your recipes.
12:24 the elder Karen
Its next year and I'm waiting on the history of m&m's. And chocolate necco wafers are the best, even if they are chocolate chalk, lol.
"nut cartoons" wat
We use to make popcorn balls, candied apples and other treats to give out. Miss that. Was a lot of fun.
Stop eating carbs.
God, it gets worse and worse every year. Nowadays the kids in my neighborhood get driven around. And before nightfall too.
Chicken feet!?! lol sounds about right
You didn’t quite go back in history far enough. Halloween means All Hallows Eve with Hallow meaning holy. It’s the eve of All Saints Day and it’s origins are Catholic. Pope Gregory IV transferred this feast day from May 13th to November 1st in 844 AD. Trick or treating is a modern secular adaptation of children asking for “soul cakes” and offering to pray for their neighbors dead loved ones. Please consider an episode of this nature and make soul cakes.
Man I kinda miss the old kitchen
I used to make this with my mother and grandmother and yes, my brother and I are usually given the job of pulling the candy for what often felt like forever! It was good stuff though! I’ve made it own a few times since, but it’s been years now. I may just have to bust out the old candy thermometer soon!
So THAT'S how you got those arms
You have a hoard of candy in the Netherlands Babalar I'm hoping that's the right way to say it.That's my favorite dutch candy
The history of Halloween sounds interesting
This was very popular in Australia in the 1970’s and 80’s. We called them toffee. They were made at the hard crack stage and poured into patty cake wrappers without stretching it. The coveted ones were the “stick jaws” that had only reached soft crack and you couldn’t get your teeth apart until they melted. Definitely a school fundraising favourite.
Max, thank you for your wonderful & beautifully written, executed and produced videos. I have your Cook Book on my Amazon WISH/TO BUY list (fact is that I am swimming in cookbooks, have typical large NYC studio apartment with typical small NYC apartment kitchen). I'm from a family (both maternal & paternal) of great cooks & food, half 100% Italian & other 95% Irish. My Mum was a fabulous and adventurous cook with a wall of cookbooks in her huge kitchen. I already had many CBs myself, but took a few after my folks passed since 2019. I hope you may one day do presentations on three Italian baked goods that I adore and which Mum's were superb….Pizzelle, Torrone & Taralli. I have yet to find a commercial Taralli as good as Mum's, not even those from Italy. I think one of the things that made hers so terrific is that she boiled them (as is done with bagels). I believe there are recipes where they are not boiled and I think it makes all the difference. Mum's were like a super crunchy hard pretzel with firm crumbly interior. She made fennel, black pepper, peperoncino and anise. Love to know the history of all three. I am shocked that Eataly NYC does not sell pizzelle at all and the small taralli brands they carry are just so-so. Best wishes with you book tour. Many congrats on your success & celebrity!! It is much deserved.
When they give you a trick AND treat.
Happy Halloween
"she's a ghost and I'm a drunken, horrible ghost!"
So I finished making this candy and while it tasted delicious and I could not believe I made it inside of an hour with staples from my pantry….i choose to add a little orange food coloring for Halloween and it turned out a bit wrong.
My family said “yumbo flesh colored twisted sticks!” Well I tried and for the record they are eating them now faster than I can clean up my pan.
No mention of samhain in Ireland and kids going around collecting soul cakes as the first form of trick or treat?
Halloween in the fifties was a lot of fun. The whole neighborhood got involved. Parties and costume contests at the local high school, neighbors that invited trick-or-treaters (and the adults herding then around) to enjoy cider and donuts. Now it's Trunk or Treat which still strikes me as creepy.
MARS company = evil poison
Oh my Max is jacked
Hearing all the things that they just left small kids alone to do as someone whose job it is to care for kids in these days is soooo funny.
Apparently, the parties weren't entirely successful since it would appear that the original Hallowe'en mischief just started one night earlier on "Devil's Night/Mischief Night".
Okay can we please have a pigs in a blanket history??? Because oysters?????
In New England/upstate NY, I heard about 'Cabbage Night' growing up – a distinct night for pranks/vandalism, October 30 rather than 31, and more of a myth than something that really happened that often by 90s. I had no idea why it was called that until this video! Thanks Max!
People are always going on about how high crime is these days and how innocent things used to be but they were also having to get extra mounted police so children didn't destroy the town
In Latin America, a very similar candy is still made, but with “panela”, that is, sugar cane molasses. It is delicious.
Love how it just says "pocket knife" three times, like they're not even for a specific category of costume they're just giving three costumed individuals a pocket knife for shits
Love how at 8:17 you told a story about a complaint in Bangor maine because i think maine dosent really get brought up in history as much coming from a mainer himself and a fan of the channel
I JUST made this and it worked! I tried making some before Hallowe'en and I used malt vinegar and it was terrible. I just tried it again this evening and I used apple cider vinegar and it tastes GREAT! Thank you for the recipe! I recommend wearing food safe gloves while pulling the sugar, because it's quite warm when you start.
Wow your hair looks amazing in this one
Max I certainly didn’t think I’d be learning about hard crack today
Didn’t they believe in spanking back then?
My mother made vinegar candy with us kids every year or so. Nothing better. The only problem was trying not to get burned pulling it.