West Virginia Centennial Cook Book, Supplement · 1964

Bourbon Balls

Name: Bourbon Balls
Ingredients: 1 cup vanilla wafer crumbs; 1 cup chopped pecans; 1 cup powdered sugar, plus more for rolling; 2 Tbsp. cocoa; 2 jiggers bourbon whiskey; 1½ Tbsp. white corn syrup

From Mrs. T. L. Henritze, of Logan, West Virginia.

CourseCandies
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Step 1: Combine the crumbs, pecans, sugar and cocoa.
Step 2: Mix the whiskey and corn syrup together.
Step 3: Stir the whiskey mixture into the crumb mixture.
Step 4: Form into small balls and roll in powdered sugar.
Step 5: Keep cool until ready to serve.

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Keep cool until ready to serve.

What we changed or couldn’t read (1)

A jigger is 1½ fl. oz., so 2 jiggers is about 3 fl. oz. (6 Tbsp.).

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