Family Recipes
If anything has ever been true about our family we love to eat and we love to eat good food there have been countless holidays where we felt like the only thing left to do was fall asleep. Here is a collection of family recipes I am building if you have a recipe you would like to add please email it to me [email protected]
My Moms (Danna Doty-Patterson-Donovan)
Irish Potato Candy
Irish Potato Candy
March 1995
This came from my Daughter Tiffany’s 2nd grade class for St. Patty’s Day.
This candy is a traditional in Philadelphia
Danna Donovan
Mix together
3 cups of grated coconut
3 cups sugar
¾ cup evaporated milk
2 tablespoons butter or margarine and a pinch of salt
Cook in heavy sauce pan until the sugar dissolves in and the mixture come
to a boil.
Continue cooking and stirring until thickened
Sir in one tsp. Vanilla extract and turn out on a buttered platter.
Spread out with a wooden spoon.
While still slightly warm cut into bite –size pieces and sprinkle generously
with cinnamon.