Sultana Caramels

Ingredients

• three tablespoons butter
• three tablespoons molasses
• one-third cup milk
• one and one-half cups sugar
• four tablespoons prepared cocoa
• one and one-half squares unsweetened chocolate
• one-third cup English walnut meat
• one and one-half tablespoons Sultana raisins
• one-half teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter, add molasses, milk, and sugar.

2. 2

   Heat to boiling and boil for eight minutes.

3. 3

   Add cocoa or chocolate, stir until melted, then boil for seven minutes.

4. 4

   Extinguish flame, add walnuts, raisins, and vanilla.

5. 5

   Beat until creamy, pour into a buttered pan, cool, and mark in squares.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Chafing dish possibilities (1898) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sultana Caramels Melt three tablespoons butter, add three table- spoons molasses, one-third cup milk, and one and one-half cups sugar. Heat to boiling point and boil eight minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent burning. Add four tablespoons pre- pared cocoa or one and one-half squares un- sweetened chocolate, and stir until chocolate is melted; then boil seven minutes. Extinguish flame, add one-third cup English walnut meat broken in pieces, one and one-half tablespoons Sultana raisins, and one-half teaspoon vanilla. Beat until the mixture is creamy, pour into a buttered pan, cool, and mark in squares. Praulines Heat one cup powdered sugar, one-half cup maple syrup, and one-fourth cup cream to boil- ing point, and boil until a soft ball may be formed when mixture is tried in cold water. Extinguish flame, and beat until the mixture is creamy. Add one cup pecan meat, cut in pieces, and drop from tip of spoon in small piles, on buttered paper. Peppermints Put one-half cup water and one and one-half cups sugar in blazer, and stir constantly until i47 Chafing Dish Possibilities sugar is dissolved. Boil ten minutes. Beat until mixture begins to thicken, and add six drops oil of peppermint. Drop from tip of spoon on buttered paper, working rapidly. Should mixture become too stiff to drop, add a small quantity of boiling water. Checkermints Make same as Peppermints, adding oil of wintergreen instead of oil of peppermint. Butter Taffy Boil together one and one-half cups light brown sugar, three tablespoons molasses

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