Candy

Ingredients

• Butter, 2 ounces
• Sweet milk, % cup
• Vanilla extract, 20 drops

Method

1. 1

   Put all the ingredients into the saucepan except the vanilla, and boil, stirring constantly, for 20 minutes.

2. 2

   Test by dropping a little in a cup of cold water; as soon as it forms a ball and does not discolor the water, remove the pan from the fire.

3. 3

   Add the vanilla, and beat with a wooden spoon till cool; then pour into a greased shallow tin pan and allow it to harden.

4. 4

   Before it is quite hard, cut into blocks with a sharp knife.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Around-the-world cook book (1913) by Mary Louise Barroll, page 90. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Butter, 2 ounces, Sweet milk, % cup. Vanilla extract, 20 drops. The butter should be unsalted if possible. Put all the in- gredients into the saucepan except the vanilla, and boil, stir- ring constantly, for 20 minutes. Try, by dropping a little in a cup of cold water, and as soon as it will form a ball, and does not discolor the water, remove the pan from the fire. 267 CANDY

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