Peppermints.
3 cups sugar, 3/4 cup butter. Boil together seven or eight minutes. Remove from the fire, and stir in 1/8 teaspoon cream tartar, 1/4 drachm of oil of peppermint. Beat until cool enough to drop on buttered plates, the size of a dollar.
3 cups sugar, 3/4 cup butter. Boil together seven or eight minutes. Remove from the fire, and stir in 1/8 teaspoon cream tartar, 1/4 drachm of oil of peppermint. Beat until cool enough to drop on buttered plates, the size of a dollar.