Cream Candy

Ingredients

• 3 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup boiling water
• 1/2 tablesp vinegar
• 1/4 teasp cream of tartar

Method

1. 1

   Put sugar, boiling water, vinegar, and cream of tartar in a kettle.

2. 2

   Stir until dissolved, then boil without stirring until brittle in cold water.

3. 3

   Pour on a buttered plate and pull until white and glossy, adding desired flavor.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 140. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

, 1 cup boiling water, and 3 tablesp vinegar. When it reaches the boiling point, add i/^ teasp cream of tartar, and boil until, when a little is dropped in cold water,, it will become brittle. Stir constantly, and when nearly done, add V2 cup melted butter and i/4 teasp soda. Pour on a but- tered pie plate, and when cool enough to handle, pull, same as directed in recipe for plain molasses candy, working in, while pulling 1 teasp vanilla and i/^ teasp lemon extract, or a few drops of peppermint or oil of wintergreen. Sugar Candy Put 2 tablesp butter in a granite-ware kettle, and when melted add 2 cups sugar and V2 cup vinegar. Stir until sugar is dissolved, and boil until when a little of the mixture is drop- ped in cold water it will become brittle. Pour on a buttered pie plate, and pull, the same as molasses candy. Cream Candy Into an agate-ware kettle put 3 cups sugar, i^ cup boiling water, V2 tablesp vinegar,

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