sugar plum

Factual Questions
1

Hello Straight Dopies,

Its that time of year when songs of long ago creep into our minds and fill with yuletide elevator Muzak that won’t be silent.

Sugar plums
What the heck are they???

               Can you give me any recipes?
2

They are candies.

Since The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies is part of The Nutcracker one would obviously check out the New York City Ballet for a sugar plum recipe.

3

Nope. No recipes there.

Anyone?? Anyone???

4

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~yuie/fd/sugplum.html

5

That’s odd, if I go to the link I provided the internal scroll bar on the page takes me down to the recipe. Did you miss the scroll bar?

6

The story of the hungry candle…

7

The New York City Ballet link does have a sugar plum recipe. But it’s confusing because there are two scroll bars. You have to use the left scroll bar to get down to the recipe.

I looked at several recipe sites and the thing I discovered is that sugar plums don’t have plums in them! Here are several recipes:

http://www.foodlines.com/recipe_swap/desserts/other/sugar_plums.shtml

http://pub9.ezboard.com/fchezrendifrm29.showMessage?topicID=70.topic

http://pub9.ezboard.com/fchezrendifrm29.showMessage?topicID=72.topic

http://www.recipegoldmine.com/holidayChristmas/christmas212.html