Delicious Buckeyes

There are a few different recipes for Buckeyes; I've tried a few and the one I'm going to include with this lens, of course, is my favorite.
The recipe will tell you to use a double boiler; however, I found you can use two different size pots. Fill the smaller pot half full of water and place the larger pot on top of the smaller pot; the larger pot is for the chocolate and paraffin wax.
These candies may be kept for up to six weeks in the freezer; so prepare them well in advance of the rush of Christmas dinner.

I grew up in a large, loving family; we didn't have alot of material posessions but we had each other. Christmas time was great; myself and each of my siblings received one toy and one outfit and we appreciated what we received. We had real stockings hung and what was in our stocking was candy, fruit, and nuts; oh, how I wish we could go back to those times. Of course, we made alot of baked goods, buckeyes among those goodies.

2 cups creamy peanut butter

1/2 cup butter

6 cups powdered sugar

1 bag chocolate chips

More Love Than You Can Imagine

Mix peanut butter, melted butter, & sugar until smooth texture. (you can mix with a spoon or with your hands) (pour the powered sugar a cup at a time until the mixture can be formed into balls, it may take a little more or a little less) Form into small balls the size of buckeyes; place on wax paper or reynolds wrap on a cookie sheet, put a tooth pick in each ball, then refrigerate. Slowly melt together chocolate chips and paraffin wax in the top of a double boiler. (chip off a small chunk of wax to mix with chocolate; this helps to keep the chocolate thin and gives it a shine) Dip the cold buckeyes into chocolate with tooth picks until 2/3 covered, place on cookie sheet and refrigerate. Makes about six dozen or so. You may also subsitute the chocolate chips for white chocolate chips.

Before you make this delicious treat, you need a little history lesson on the Ohio Buckeye. The first recorded use of the term to refer to a resident of the area is in 1788, some 15 years before Ohio became a state. Col. Ebenezer Sproat, a 6'4" man of large girth and swashbuckling mannerisms, led the legal delegation at the first court session of the Northwest Territory, held in Marietta. The Indians in attendance greeted him with shouts of "Hetuck, Hetuck" (the Indian word for buckeye), it is said because they were impressed by his stature and manner. He proudly carried the Buckeye nickname for the rest of his life, and it gradually spread to his companions and to other local settlers. By the 1830s, writers were commonly referring to locals as "Buckeyes."

In 1840, William Henry Harrison, a Virginia-born Ohioan and military hero, was a candidate for the White House, but his opponents commented that he was better suited to sit in a log cabin and drink hard cider. Some of Harrison's leading supporters, in nearby Marysville, Ohio, decided to turn into a positive reference what was supposed to be a negative one. They dubbed him "the log cabin candidate," and built as his campaign emblem a log cabin made of buckeye timbers, with a long string of buckeyes decorating its walls. His campaign was successful and as a result, citizens of Ohio became known as "Buckeyes."
Before he had been in office a month, he caught a cold that developed into pneumonia. On April 4, 1841, he died--the first President to die in office.

Commonly believed to be inedible

• but known to be poisonous to Michigan Wolverines, the buckeye was roasted and mashed by the Native Americans; early settlers used the lightweight wood for utensils and to weave baskets.

Believed to have medicinal powers

• the early immigrants to America believed the buckeye nut had medicinal powers as a preventative of rheumatism, arthritis, and headache. It was used as a cure-all for generations.

Named for the similarity in color and shape to the eye of a male deer.

Worn by OSU fans

• the buckeye is believed to increase one's supply of pocket money, bring good luck to gamblers, and to increase sexual potentness.

Hetuck, the Indian word for buckeye.

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