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Offline GingerPye

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Buttermints recipe?
« on: March 24, 2014, 12:34:47 PM »
So, I'm gearing up to get DD's high school graduation party planned.  I would like to try to make buttermints --- anyone have a foolproof recipe?  I have found a few recipes online ---  a lot of them have cream or condensed milk or cream cheese in them, etc. 

We have milk, egg, PN and TN allergies.
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Offline GoingNuts

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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2014, 12:44:36 PM »
I've never heard of them!
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Offline GingerPye

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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2014, 12:47:56 PM »
oooh, maybe it is a Midwestern thing?  I have great memories of snatching a handful out of Grandma's candy dish.    They are usually served at weddings and parties and such.
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Offline becca

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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2014, 03:25:18 PM »
I only know of using cream cheese, and have never made them. 
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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2014, 03:28:18 PM »
Here is a recipe.  Maybe try swapping out to your safe butter substitute and safe milk, but I do think the butter and cream itmes lend the flavor and consistency to them.  But easy enough to try ahead fo time to see if it works.

http://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/buttermints
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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2014, 06:12:20 PM »
Pooh I love butter mints--have since I was a kid. They say "special occasion" to me. Great idea.
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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2014, 07:22:27 PM »
Quote from: GoingNuts on March 24, 2014, 12:44:36 PM
I've never heard of them!


yes you have!  I think they are named/nicknamed something else in the northeast though...



Don't they look familiar? Weddings..."after dinner mints" in some restaurants

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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2014, 07:27:16 PM »
Yup, you're right. Yummy!
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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2014, 07:31:10 PM »
Quote from: GoingNuts on March 24, 2014, 07:27:16 PM
Yup, you're right. Yummy!

what's another name for them? I never remember them being called buttermints??

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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2014, 07:32:06 PM »
Ah - I think I knew them as "Pastels" or "Pastel mints" not to be confused with "Pastilles"

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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2014, 07:43:56 AM »
« Last Edit: March 25, 2014, 07:50:22 AM by becca »
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Offline GingerPye

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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2014, 10:04:52 AM »
Thanks for that recipe, becca.  I had found a few that might work but had not found that one.  I'll try to make some for Easter and make sure that they are good!   :)
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Offline PurpleCat

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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2014, 12:50:41 PM »
You could make those and sell them to us!!!!!   :bye:   :yes:


I love those!  My grandmother had either those which I loved or the other kind filled with a jelly that I hated.
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Offline krasota

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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2014, 01:35:46 PM »
You could also search for vegan butttermint recipes.  Butter/margarine, mint oil or vanilla, and confectioner's sugar.  You just add enough milk to make them pliable, so any sub should work.  I'm sure my mom always used margarine.  Some butter subs are salty--experiment.
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Re: Buttermints recipe?
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2014, 02:30:55 PM »
One used coconut oil but encountered an issue and then suggested how to resolve it.
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