Maine Needhams Recipe

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Maine Needhams
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Ingredients
9
Count
Nutrition
643
Calories
Total time
40
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 (1 lb) packages confectioners' sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 (7 oz) bags flaked coconut
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 (12 oz) package chocolate chips
  • 1/2 paraffin wax block, the same paraffin you melt to use on top jam (2 1/2 by 2 1/2)

Directions:

  1. Pare, cook, and mash potato to make three-quarters of a cup.
  2. Add salt.
  3. Using double boiler place butter in it and melt over boiling water.
  4. Add mashed potato, confectioners sugar, flaked coconut, and vanilla.
  5. Mix well and turn into a buttered jelly roll pan and spread evenly.
  6. Place in a cool place to harden.
  7. When hard, cut into small squares.
  8. For the dipping chocolate, again use a double boiler.
  9. Place paraffin in the top over boiling water to melt.
  10. Then add the two kinds of chocolate and allow to melt.
  11. Stir well to mix ingredients.
  12. Dip in the chocolate mixture (with a fork, toothpick, or cake tester-I use a fork and put the square on top of the tines and dip it, letting the excess chocolate drip off before I lay it on the waxed paper).
  13. Hold each square over the chocolate mixture after dipping so the square drains well (I usually will have to reheat the chocolate inbetween dippings so it is nice and thin and drips of easily).
  14. Place on waxed paper to harden.
  15. Should make about 66 good sized needhams.
  16. This halves easily.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 643.31 Kcal (2693 kJ)
Calories from fat 147.89 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 16.43g 25%
Cholesterol 30.5mg 10%
Sodium 169.81mg 7%
Potassium 144.18mg 3%
Total Carbs 126.31g 42%
Sugars 111.24g 445%
Dietary Fiber 1.02g 4%
Protein 1.2g 2%
Vitamin C 2.2mg 4%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 5%
Iron 0.4mg 2%
Calcium 8.3mg 1%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 397.5 Kcal (1664 kJ)
Calories from fat 91.38 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 10.15g 25%
Cholesterol 18.85mg 10%
Sodium 104.93mg 7%
Potassium 89.09mg 3%
Total Carbs 78.05g 42%
Sugars 68.74g 445%
Dietary Fiber 0.63g 4%
Protein 0.74g 2%
Vitamin C 1.4mg 4%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 5%
Iron 0.3mg 2%
Calcium 5.2mg 1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 14
    Points
  • 18
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium,
  • low cholesterol

Bad Points

  • High in Sugar

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