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.
I've never heard of them!
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.
I only know of using cream cheese, and have never made them.
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 (http://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/buttermints)
Pooh I love butter mints--have since I was a kid. They say "special occasion" to me. Great idea.
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...
(http://trialx.com/g/Butter_Mints-1.jpg)
Don't they look familiar? Weddings..."after dinner mints" in some restaurants
Yup, you're right. Yummy!
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??
Ah - I think I knew them as "Pastels" or "Pastel mints" not to be confused with "Pastilles"
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Yeah, pastel mints.
http://www.harrisburgstore.com/richardson-pastel-mints-4lbs-bag/?gclid=CIG5wsvcrb0CFe1QOgodNRQARg (http://www.harrisburgstore.com/richardson-pastel-mints-4lbs-bag/?gclid=CIG5wsvcrb0CFe1QOgodNRQARg)
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! :)
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.
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.
One used coconut oil but encountered an issue and then suggested how to resolve it.
Well. I have found several buttermint recipes to try --- most of them are pretty similar. So I tried making them yesterday.
Ummm, does NOT work without milk or butter. I used my milk free margarine and rice milk. Only 2 T of rice milk, but apparently the milk protein does have something to do with the consistency. I had an oooey goooey mess on my counter yesterday. No way no how was I going to get anything resembling mints out of that mess.
I have not found a "vegan" recipe yet. I'm thinking it is something like pudding --- another food I have not been able to replicate without cow's milk.
Yeah, I do not think it is a common item to do homemade. They are a candy so readily available, if you do not have allergies, so maybe not too many people trying to make them out there. I was going to suggest coconut oil, but it would be soft above certain temps and a liquid mess as well. Did your grandmother make hers on her own?
no, I'm sure she bought her buttermints. Common thing to buy back in the 60s and 70s, as I recall. But I did find several recipes, and if we didn't have milk allergy, I would make them. Looks easy enough. And they are so yummy.
The milk ones also use cream cheese, right? That gives the texture and thickness. Well, maybe some do not use cream cheese, but I have seen them with.
yes, some of the recipes I found had cream cheese., but I had found some without.
I saw a big bag of those mints just the other day at Sam's Club. No milk on the ingredients. It listed cream of tartar, so you might search recipes with that. Here's one http://www.cooks.com/recipe/ay50a66s/after-dinner-mints.html. (http://www.cooks.com/recipe/ay50a66s/after-dinner-mints.html.) It seems like a lot of work, it's probably worth finding out the brand of the Sam's ones and checking for safety - I think it was Richardson's brand, but I'm not positive.
Huh. That recipe looks something like taffy.