Vassar Divinity Fudge
| Sugar (granulated), | 3 cups |
| Maple syrup, | 1 cup |
| Water, | 1½ cups |
| Vinegar, | 1 tablespoon |
| Walnut meats, | 2 cups |
| Whites of | 2 eggs (beaten stiffly) |
| Flavoring (vanilla), | 1 teaspoon |
For this Betsey needed two saucepans. In one she put two cups of sugar, one cup of water, the maple syrup and vinegar, boiled these until they formed a soft ball in cold water, then removed from fire.
In the second pan she had boiling the other cup of sugar and the half cup of water; when they had boiled so that the syrup formed a thread from the tip of the spoon she poured it at once on the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs, beating continually, added quickly all this to the first mixture, stirred in the nuts and vanilla, beat until it was like cream and poured in buttered pan. Sometimes Betsey packed it in a deep, well buttered loaf pan and sliced like cake.
CHAPTER IV
CARAMELS
One Friday afternoon, as mother was sitting at the window engaged in her sewing, Betsey bobbed in and exclaimed: "Mother, I want to make caramels!"
"Right now?" asked mother, looking up from her sewing with a quizzical smile.
"Well, no, not just now," replied Betsey, "but I really would like to make caramels."
Just why Betsey wanted to make caramels puzzled mother, until Betsey told her of the delicious caramels Dorothy's uncle sent her for a birthday remembrance and which she had shared with her little friend. "They were wonderful!" sighed Betsey.
Mother looked at her daughter's wistful little face and said: "To-morrow, dear, I will start you on caramels, and I hope they will be just as 'wonderful' as the ones you had to-day; at least some of them."
So here are the different caramels that Betsey made, and some of them Betsey agreed were quite as "wonderful" as Dorothy's birthday candy.