Sea Foam
2 cups brown sugar
2-3 cup water
White 1 egg
Boil together until it forms a soft ball. Beat white of egg to stiff froth and pour syrup slowly into it, adding vanilla and beating. Drop in balls onto oiled paper. Black walnuts, English walnuts, or cocoanut may be added.
Chocolate Fudge
3 cups white sugar
2 squares of chocolate
3/4 cup milk
Just before removing from fire, add
1 tablespoon butter
Let cool before beating. When cool add nuts, dash of salt and beat.
Fudge That Never Fails
2 cups blown sugar
Small can condensed milk
Butter size of egg
Boil until soft ball in water is formed. Let get cool, then beat.
Chocolate Fudge
2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup milk
2 squares chocolate
1 tablespoon butte, walnut meats
Mix sugar, butter, milk and chocolate and allow to boil until soft ball stage. Remove from fire and add another tablespoon butter. Allow to cool COMPLETELY before stirring. When cool beat until it shows signs of hardening, then pour onto buttered plate.
Peanut Brittle
1 cup karo
1 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons butter
1 cup peanuts
Boil sugar and water together with karo until it is crisp when dropped into cold water. Before taking from the fire add butter and nuts. Pour into buttered tins.
Fig Candy
Grind one-half pound of figs through a meat grinder. Boil together three cups of brown sugar and one cup of milk, to which a pinch of soda has been added, until it forms a very hard ball when dropped into cold water. Remove from the fire and beat until it is creamy, then add the figs and pour into a buttered pan to cool. When cool, turn out on a board and cut into squares.
Peppermint Drops
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
10 drops oil of peppermint
Put sugar and water on stove together over a steady fire. Boil for five minutes. Remove from stove, add the oil of peppermint, beat until a little cloudy, and drop with a teaspoon on buttered paper.
Fruit Balls
1 box dates
1 pound figs
10 cents worth mixed nut meats
1 cup raisins
Put through the grinder and then form in small balls and roll in granulated sugar.
Maple Cream
1 cup maple syrup
1 cup brown sugar
l/2 cup milk
1 tablespoon butter
Boil until soft ball stage. Flavor with vanilla and proceed as for fudge.
Peanut Brittle
4 cups brown sugar, moistened with
2 tablespoons of water and 2 of vinegar
Boil until it threads. Add a large piece of butter. Have pan greased with butter and layers of peanuts, whole or chopped. Pour over the hot syrup. Cool and cut.