After Betsey let the sugar and water come to the boiling point she added the cream of tartar dissolved in one teaspoon of hot water and continued to boil until a little of the syrup dropped in cold water had nearly reached the hard ball stage, then she added the butter.
When it had quite reached the hard ball stage Betsey took it from the fire, dropped in the four drops of peppermint and poured the candy into a buttered pan to cool.
Greasing her finger-tips just as she did for the lemon and vanilla cream candy, Betsey proceeded to pull until white and then cut it in small pieces.
Betsey's Orange Cream Candy
| Sugar (granulated), | 2 cups |
| Water, | ½ cup |
| Cream of tartar, | ¼ teaspoon |
| Butter, | Size of a walnut |
| Flavoring (orange), | 1 teaspoon |
Betsey called this her own recipe, because, while it was made exactly like the "Lemon," "Vanilla," and "Peppermint Cream Candy," she said to mother one day, "Why can't I use orange flavoring and have still another change?" Mother told her there was no reason at all why she couldn't, and that she was glad to see Betsey thinking out new combinations for herself.
So Betsey was delighted, and once more mother wrote it out, for, as Betsey said, "It was much easier to have it right before you under its own name than to keep turning back to the recipes that had gone before."
The sugar and water were brought to the boiling point, the cream of tartar was dissolved in one teaspoon of hot water and added; these she let boil until a little dropped in cold water was almost hard, then Betsey put in the butter. When it was quite hard she took it from the fire, added the orange flavoring and poured at once into the buttered pan to cool.
Betsey found she had time to wash her saucepan, spoon and other dishes before she needed to grease her fingers, and thus made the kitchen more tidy and attractive while she pulled the candy.