Butter Scotch No. 1

Ingredients

• 3 cups brown sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon soda
• 1 cup water
• 1 teaspoon flavoring
• 2 tablespoons butter
• few grains salt

Method

1. 1

   Boil all ingredients until a thread is formed when dropped from a spoon.

2. 2

   Pour into hot buttered pans, crease, and let stand until hard.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lowney's cook book (1907) by Maria Willett Howard, page 118. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

3 cups brown sugar J teaspoon soda 1 cup water 1 teaspoon flavoring 2 tablespoons butter few grains salt Boil all ingredients until a thread is formed when dropped from a spoon. Pour into hot buttered pans, crease, and let stand until hard. Butter Scotch No. 2 1 cup brown sugar ^ teaspoon soda 1 cup molasses 1 tablespoon vinegar ^ cup butter few grains salt Cook in the same way as Butter Scotch No. 1. Butter Taify 1 cup molasses | cup milk 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla 1 cup butter few grains salt Cook all ingredients until brittle when tried in cold water. Pour into hot buttered pans, crease, and cool. Cream Candy 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla 302 LOWNEY'S COOK BOOK Cook sugar, water and cream of tartar until brittle when tried in cold water ; add vanilla ; pour on to greased platter or marble. Pull as soon as it can be handled. Cocoanut Candy 2 cups sugar 2 tablespoons butter

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