Honey Squares

Ingredients

• 1 cupful strained honey
• 1/2 cupful cream
• 1 cupful brown sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoonful salt
• 1 tablespoonful Crisco
• 1 teaspoonful lemon extract
• Pinch cream of tartar

Method

1. 1

   Put Crisco, salt, honey, cream and sugar into saucepan; stir over slow fire until dissolved, then add cream of tartar.

2. 2

   Boil until it forms a hard ball when tested in cold water, or 252° F.

3. 3

   Remove from fire, stir in lemon extract, and pour into Criscoed tin.

4. 4

   Mark into squares before cold.

5. 5

   Wrap in waxed paper.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 9 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoonful lemon extract Wash and dry figs, then chop them. Put sugar and water into sauce- pan, and dissolve, add Crisco and cream of tartar, and when it boils, add figs, and boil to a soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240° F., stirring all the time. Remove pan from fire, add lemon extract and salt, cool five minutes, then stir until it begins to grain, and quickly pour into Criscoed tin. When half cold mark in squares. Honey Squares 1 cupful strained honey Y% cupful cream 1 cupful brown sugar 1% teaspoonful salt 1 tablespoonful Crisco Pinch cream of tartar

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