Candy in Pudding Fashion

Ingredients

• half a pint of citron
• half a pint of raisins
• half a pound of figs
• quarter of a pound of shelled almonds
• one pint of peanuts before they are hulled
• two pounds of coffee-sugar
• a piece of butter as large as a walnut
• moisten with vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the fruits and nuts, then moisten the sugar with vinegar and cook with butter until it hardens.

2. 2

   Beat it, stir in the mixed fruits and nuts, pour into a wet cloth, roll it up, and let it cool.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 137. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Candy in Pudding Fashion. — Newport Candy. — Cream Caramels. — Conserves of 8tPaw|)eme8. — Kisses. — Peach Chips or Conserves. — Peach Leather. — Butter Taffy. — Cocoa-nut Cones. — First-rate Molasses Candy. — Choco- late Caramels. — Delightful Cough Candy. Cocoa-nut Candy. Equal quantities of white sugar and grated cocoa-nut ; add enough milk of the cocoa-nut to moisten the sugar, and then put it on the fire to boil, stirring almost constant- ly. When the candy begins to return to sugar, stir in the cocoa-nut as quickly as possible, and in a minute or two spread it on dishes to cool, marking it off in squares to cut after it hardens sufficiently. If you would like a por- tion pink stir a little pokeberry jelly into some of the candy while hot, until it has acquired the tint you like. CoooA-NUT Balls. Any confectioner now will furnish his customers with freshly-grated cocoa-nut at a reasonable price, which is a great saving of labor at home. To one pound and a half of white sugar put one pint of water, and boil until ropy ; then turn it out into a bowl, and stir into it one good- sized cocoa-nut, and when cool make into balls with the hand, and set away to dry. Candy in Pudding Fashion. Take half a pint of citron, half a pint of raisins, half a pound of figs, quarter of a pound of shelled almonds, VmQINIA COOKERY-BOOK, W one pint of peanuts before they are hulled ; out up the citron, stone the raisins, blanch the almonds, and bull the peanuts ; cut up the figs into small bits. Take two pounds of coflFee-sugar, and moisten with vinegar ; put in a piece of butter as large as a walnut

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