White Sugar Candy

Ingredients

• To eight pounds of white sugar
• five pints of boiling water
• three table-spoonfuls of butter
• three table-spoonfuls of clear vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Pour boiling water over the sugar and stir until thoroughly dissolved.

2. 2

   Set on the fire and keep boiling briskly, but not hot enough to burn.

3. 3

   Wash the salt out of the butter.

4. 4

   Boil the vinegar and butter together in a tin cup.

5. 5

   When boiling hot, pour into the candy.

6. 6

   Try the candy by dipping a little in cold water.

7. 7

   When very hard on the spoon it is done.

8. 8

   Do not stir the candy while boiling.

9. 9

   When done, pour out carefully on buttered plates.

10. 10

    Flavor with vanilla or lemon.

11. 11

    When cool, pull until white.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 165. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITE SUGAR CANDY. To eight pounds of white sugar take five pints of boiling water and pour over the sugar. Stir until it is thoroughly dissolved, then set on the fire and keep it boiling briskly, but not hot enough to burn. Wash the salt out of three table-spoonfuls of butter. Boil three table-spoonfuls of clear vinegar

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