Spearmint Jumbles
- 2 cups sugar
- ½ cup water
- 1 cup mint leaves
1. Wash the mint leaves.
2. Put the sugar in a saucepan. Add the water.
3. Stir sugar over the fire until dissolved.
4. Cook quite hard until the sugar begins to turn brown. Take from the fire. Add mint leaves, stirring hard.
5. Turn out on a buttered pie plate. Add 2 tablespoons butter.
6. Stir hard until candy falls apart or crumbles into small pieces.
“My, but you are smart, Mary Frances!” declared Eleanor. “I wish I could do such things—but what if some people don’t care for spearmint flavor?”
“We could make some fudge.” Mary Frances met the suggestion, “but I think everybody ought to think it good this time because it’s from our garden. I didn’t like to plan for ice-cream even because it didn’t grow there.”