2 cups brown sugar.
1 cup white sugar.
1 tablespoonful butter.
1 tablespoonful vinegar.
1 small teaspoonful soda.
Boil hard twenty minutes, stirring all the time, and cool in shallow pans. If you double the quantity you must boil the candy five minutes longer.
The best thing about this candy is that it does not stick to the fingers, if you let it get quite cool before touching it, and pull it in small quantities. Do not put any butter on your fingers, but work fast.
HARDBAKE
Make the sugar candy given above, and stir in a large cup of shelled almonds just before taking it from the fire. Put in shallow, buttered pans.
PEPPERMINT DROPS
1 cup of sugar.
2 tablespoonfuls of water.
3 teaspoonfuls of peppermint essence.
Boil the sugar and water till when you drop a little in water it will make a firm ball in your fingers. Then take it off the fire and stir in the peppermint, and carefully drop four drops, one exactly on top of another, on a buttered platter. Do not put these too near together.
CREAM WALNUTS
2 cups of light brown sugar.
⅔ cup of boiling water.
1 small saltspoonful of cream of tartar.
1 cup of chopped walnuts.