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Molasses Candy

From The Cook County cook book, 1912

Serves 1

Recipe by Mrs. C. J. Jeffries, Winnetka, 111.

Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 388. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MOLASSES CANDY.— 1 cup of New Orleans molasses, 1 piece^f butter the size of an egg^ 1 tablespoon of vinegar. Boil, but do not stir, until it hardens when dropped in cold waiter. When it becomes hard and brittle stir in a teaspoon of soda

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