Things Mother Used to Make/Some Old-Fashioned Candies

by Lydia Maria Gurney

SOME OLD-FASHIONED CANDIES

Chocolate Taffy

1½ Cupfuls of Molasses	1 Small Teaspoonful of
1½ Cupfuls of Sugar	Flour
½ Cupful of Milk	Butter the size of a
2 Squares of Chocolate	Walnut

Stir the sugar, flour and grated chocolate into the molasses and milk. When hot add the butter. Boil until it strings. Pour into buttered tin. When nearly cold mark into squares.

Molasses Candy

2 Cupfuls of Molasses	Butter the size of a
2 Teaspoonfuls of Vinegar	Walnut
	¼ Teaspoonful of Soda

Put the molasses, vinegar and butter into a saucepan. Boil until it strings when dropped from a spoon, or until it is brittle when dropped into cold water. Stir the soda in briskly and pour into a buttered tin. When nearly cold, pull until nearly white. Cut into small pieces or sticks and lay on buttered platter.

Butter Scotch

½ Cupful of Molasses	½ Cupful of Butter
½ Cupful of Sugar

Boil until it strings. Pour into buttered tin and when cold break into pieces. This is very nice when cooled on snow.

Pop Corn Balls (very old recipe)

1 Cupful of Molasses	Piece of Butter, half the
	size of an Egg

Boil together until it strings and then stir in a pinch of soda. Put this over a quart dish full of popped corn. When cool enough to handle squeeze into balls the size of an orange.