Rich Walnut Caramels

Sugar (granulated),2 cups
Corn syrup,1¾ cups
Cream,2 cups
Butter,1 cup
Flavoring (vanilla),1 teaspoon
Walnut meats cut in pieces,1 cup

When the sugar, syrup, one cup of cream and butter reached the boiling point Betsey added the other cup of cream a little at a time so that the candy did not once stop boiling.

After trying it in cold water, and it formed a firm ball between her thumb and finger, she added the vanilla and nuts, turned it into a buttered pan, marked into squares when cool, cut with a sharp knife when cold and wrapped in waxed paper.

Betsey found that these took a long, long while to make, nearly an hour, but my! weren't they worth it when she popped one into her mouth!