CARAMELS.
One cupful of molasses, one half cupful of milk, one cupful of sugar, one teaspoonful of flour, one tablespoonful of butter, one fourth pound of chocolate; boil until it will harden when dropped in cold water, then add a few drops of glycerine and one teaspoonful of vanilla; turn into a buttered pan, when partly cool, mark in squares.
COFFEE CREAM CARAMELS.
Melt two pounds of sugar with as little water as possible; when the sugar begins to bubble, pour in slowly one teacupful of rich cream and stir carefully; add two ounces of fresh butter and the extract from two ounces of coffee, stirring gently and continuously while adding. As soon as cooked sufficiently to be brittle when dropped in cold water, pour into buttered tin dish, and when nearly cooled, mark off with a buttered knife into squares.
CHOCOLATE CARAMELS.
Cream together one teacupful of sugar with half the quantity of butter; add one fourth of a pound of grated chocolate and one teacupful each of molasses and milk. Beat well together and boil until a portion of it dropped in ice-water sets and cracks. Pour into well buttered tin pans to the thickness of half an inch. When nearly cold mark into squares with a buttered knife.
LEMON CANDY.
Put one pound of sugar into a pan or kettle with half a pint of water and a third of a teaspoonful of cream of tartar; let it boil, and when a little of it dropped in cold water becomes brittle it is done; pour into a shallow buttered dish. When cooled sufficiently to be handled add one third of a teaspoonful of tartaric acid with the same quantity of extract of lemon, and work thoroughly into the candy until the acid has been evenly distributed. If worked too much the transparency of the candy may be destroyed.
COCOANUT DROPS.
Grate one cocoanut and add to it one half its weight in sugar and the white of an egg whipped to a stiff froth. Mix all together thoroughly and drop on buttered white paper in a pan. Bake for fifteen minutes.