Best Nuts and Bolts Recipe for Christmas

Posted by Thomas Alan Gray Nov 14, 2009

One of the family heirlooms passed on from my mother was a hand-written recipe for "Christmas Scrabble". The name presumably comes because it's so good everybody is scrabbling in the dish for another handful. It was a family tradition and mom always made it in early November. The tradition has been continued by my wife.

This confection is more widely known as "nuts and bolts". I have seldom seen the "Christmas Scrabble" name anywhere else. Search the Internet, and you'll mostly find references to the word game. I did find one recipe at "Shadows in the Kitchen" (given here - takes a while to load) which is quite similar and has the same name, with slightly different ingredients. It seems to be from the same era, too. Parched corn sounds like an interesting addition, will have to try it one year.

We have tried this with no-name cereals, have made the Chex recipe, and have tasted many other versions at the homes of friends and relatives, but we keep coming back to this one. Guests who try this version usually say, "Mmm, this is so good!" and ask for the recipe.

To us, this is simply the best spicy nuts and bolts snack mix recipe we've found.

Best Spicy Snack Mix for Nuts & Bolts