Coffee Walnut Fudge

Sugar (granulated),2 cups
Coffee,1 cup
(Not too strong, and strain
through cheesecloth.)
Butter,2 tablespoons
Walnut meats (broken),½ cup

The sugar, coffee and butter were cooked until a little of the syrup, dropped in cold water, formed a soft ball. Betsey then removed the saucepan from the fire, stood it in a pan of cold water, added the walnut meats, beat till it was thick like heavy cream, poured quickly into a buttered pan and marked in squares.