CANDY-MAKING

Cherry Contests
Cherry-eating races can be very exciting. The players stand in a row with their hands behind them, and a number of long-stalked cherries are chosen from the basket and placed by the tip of the stalk between their t...

Utensils
For making candy you will need an enamel or earthenware saucepan; a long wooden spoon; one or two old soup-plates or dishes; a bowl, if there is any mixing to be done; a cup of cold water for testing; a silver knif...

General Directions
Butter the dish into which the candy is to be poured before you begin to cook. To do this put a little piece of butter on a piece of clean soft paper and rub it all over the dish. Always stir round the edge as we...

Barley Sugar
1 lb. powdered sugar. The white of an egg. 1/2 a pint of water. 1/2 a lemon. Dissolve the sugar in the water, and add the well-beaten white of an egg (this must be done before the mixture is heated). Th...

Chocolate Caramels
1 tea-cup golden syrup. 1 tea-cup brown sugar. 1 tea-cup milk. 2 oz. butter. 4 oz. powdered chocolate. A pinch of salt. 16 drops vanilla. Boil all together for half an hour, stirring continually...

Cocoanut Cream
1-1/2 lb. granulated sugar. 4 oz. grated cocoanut. Melt the sugar with as little water as possible. Continue to let it boil gently until the syrup begins to return to sugar again. Directly this happens put i...

Cocoanut Cream Another Way
1 cocoanut, grated. 1 lb. granulated sugar. 1/2 a cup of cocoanut-milk. 1 oz. butter. Put the sugar, cocoanut-milk, and butter into a saucepan. When they boil, add the cocoanut gradually. Boil for ten m...

Cocoanut Drops
1/2 lb. cocoanut, grated. 1/2 lb. white sugar. The whites of 2 eggs, well beaten. Mix well together and bake in drops on buttered paper for fifteen minutes. ...

Cream Caramels
1 tin Nestle's milk. 1 lb. soft white sugar. 2 oz. butter. Vanilla. Melt the sugar with a very little water, and when boiling add the butter and Nestle's milk. Stir continually, as the mixture burns ver...

Fruit Cream
1 cocoanut, grated. 1-1/2 lb. granulated sugar, moistened with a little cocoanut-milk. Put the sugar in a saucepan and let it heat slowly. Then boil rapidly five minutes; add grated cocoanut, and boil ten min...

Pop-corn
The corn has to be "popped" over a clear fire in a little iron basket with a long handle. The corn is put in the basket and shaken continually, and in time each grain pops suddenly and becomes a little irregular wh...

The Plainest Toffee
3 oz. butter. 1 lb. brown sugar. Stir until done. ...

Another Toffee
1 lb. raw sugar. 1/2 lb. butter. 2 small tablespoonfuls of syrup. The juice of half a lemon. Half a teaspoonful of powdered ginger. Melt the butter in a saucepan, and then add the sugar, syrup, and g...

Everton Toffee
1 lb. brown sugar. 1 small cup of water. 1/2 lb. of butter. Boil the water and sugar together very gently until the sugar is melted. Then add the butter and boil all together for half an hour. ...

Molasses Candy
1/2 lb. molasses. 1/2 lb. brown sugar. 2 oz. butter. Boil all together for half an hour. ...

Nut Candy
1 pint of chopped nuts. 1/2 lb. brown sugar. 3 oz. butter. Juice of one lemon. Tablespoonful of water. Boil everything, except the nuts, for twenty minutes, stirring all the time. Test, and if done, ...

Nut Candy Another Way
1 lb. brown sugar. 6 oz. butter. 3 oz. chopped nuts. Melt the butter in a saucepan, then add the sugar. Boil from ten to fifteen minutes and then add the nuts. Walnuts, Brazil nuts, almonds, or peanuts (w...

Peppermint Candy
1 lb. syrup. 2 oz. butter. 1 small teaspoonful of essence of peppermint. Boil the butter and syrup very gently until the mixture hardens when tested in water. Add the peppermint and pour into well-buttered...