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Candy Recipe
Popular During The
Civil War
Lourmma Moffett
Peach Leather
1. Select well ripened perfect peaches.
2. Skin them. They will skin if they are thoroughly ripe and you are careful. The best part of the peach is next to'^the skin.
3. Mash f
4. Put in a little sugar and a few sticks of cinnamon. A few strips of sasafras roots that you gathered in the spring for making tea will take the place of the cinnamon if you have none.
5. Mix with the peach pulp and cook over slow fire stirring constantly until very thick and you think well done. Do not let it stick to bottom of the pan. Remove cinnamon sticks or sasafras.
6. Spread on drying boards about one half inch thick and cover with thin cloth to protect from insects and place in sun to dry like cherries and other fruits.
7. ('When about the consistency of gum drops cut in small squares, sprinkle with sugar, pack in stone jars and cover securely.
You should be particularly careful about your drying boards. Poplar is a good wood to make them from. Pine is not, as pine is a very highly flavored wood. A Christmas story illustrates that. Once Santa Claus, during the Civil War, used peach leather for all the children’s stockings, causing “Little Hunt Miller” of Poplar Shade to ask, “Did Santa Claus bring this peach leather?”
Opon being assured that he had, he proceeded to ask every member of the family the same question. When they all gave him the same answer he said with a mighty sigh, “Well, I guess Santa Clau$ did bring this peach leather—but he dried it on Ma’s old board.”
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