Velvet Molasses Candy

Ingredients

• 1½ pounds sugar
• ½ pint molasses
• ½ pint water
• ½ cup vinegar
• ½ teaspoon cream tartar
• 1 pound butter
• ¼ teaspoon soda

Method

1. 1

   Put ingredients in an agate kettle.

2. 2

   Heat; when boiling add cream tartar, boil until it crisps in cold water.

3. 3

   Stir; when almost done add butter and soda.

4. 4

   Cool in buttered pan and pull.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The royal baker and pastry cook (1902) by New York Cooking School, page 79. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

j cup vinegar, 1 Mt cups cold water, piece of butter size of a wal- nut, flavor with extract vanilla. Boil until it hardens, then pull until white. Molasses Candy. — 3 cups yellow coffee sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup water, Mi tea- spoon cream tartar, butter size of a walnut. Follow directions for cream candy. Velvet Molasses Candy.— Put IMj pounds sugar. Mi pint molasses, Mz pint water, Mi cup vinegar, in agate kettle. Heat; when boiling add Mj teaspoon cream tartar, boil tiU it crisps in cold water. Stir ; when almost done add \ pound butter, 14 teaspoon soda.

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