CANDIES.
Reading edition
Caramels (Mrs. Wadsworth).
Ingredients: One cupful of best sirup, one cupful of brown sugar, one cupful of white sugar, two cupfuls of grated chocolate, two cupfuls of cream, vanilla, one tea-spoonful of flour mixed with the cream.
Rub the chocolate to a smooth paste with a little of the cream; boil all together half an hour, and pour it into flat dishes to cool; mark it with a knife into little squares when it is cool enough.
White-sugar Candy (Miss Eliza Brown).
Ingredients: Four pounds of sugar, one pint of water, four table-spoonfuls of cream, four table-spoonfuls of vinegar, butter the size of an egg.
Boil all together slowly for about three-quarters of an hour.
Vinegar Candy (Mrs. Clifford).
Ingredients: Three cupfuls of sugar, half a cupful of vinegar, half a cupful of water, one tea-spoonful of soda.
When it boils, stir in the soda. If the candy is preferred clear, stir it as little as possible; if grained, stir it.