I too remember Frango mints, Fannie Mae and also the fresh cashews. Gee, haven't thought about those in a long time. A few years ago someone on a food/recipe listserv I was on posted a recipe for Frango Mints! It is surprisingly easy and they taste wonderful. ****** Frango Mints 2 cups chocolate chips 1/2 cup butter 1 1/8 cup powdered sugar 2 eggs 2 tsp vanilla 2 caps-full of mint extract Melt and cool chocolate chips. Cream butter and powdered sugar. Add eggs and beat. Add cooled chocolate, vanilla and mint. Blend until creamy and drop by teaspoon onto waxed paper. Cool in refrigerator until hard. Makes 80-90 pieces. ****** I haven't made this reciep for a couple of years, but I remember it being very easy and very yummy! Just like the real thing. Enjoy! Gini Keller-Mullaly On 2/13/06, Dianna SaraccoFarish <[email protected]> wrote: > > I recall the Frango mints as well. We did not get them very often because > after moving to the suburbs our treats started being the fresh candies my > Grandmother brought home from work. where did she work? Fannie Mae Candies! > Talk of good. I recall the big fancy Easter Eggs. They were so pretty BUT > being a sweet kid.lol I could not eat them. But did you ever have fresh > Cashews right off the line? > Oh the things we recall as a kid.!...The good old days. > ~Dianna~ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bonnie > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:24 AM > Subject: Re: [IL-CHICAGO] in honor of frango mints and their REAL home > > > How well I remember the Frango mints - they were always a special treat > when I was a kid. My grandmother would take me and my mother to lunch > at the Walnut Room every year at Christmas time - always had a table > that was right at the railing by the huge tree. And always got some > Frango mints to take home - all my own and I did not have to share! > Bonnie > > -- > > Bonnie J. Selig, RAOGK Volunteer, Find A Grave County Keeper, Jo Daviess > Co., IL > > Researching B l a c k b u r n, D e p p m a n, G r o s s m a n, H e r > b s t, S e l i g and G o d f r e y > Visit my Genealogy Homepage: http://tinyurl.com/4zq7z > > > > > > > > > > > ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from Digest: Send a message to > [email protected] > that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from Digest: Send a message to > [email protected] > that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >