Things Mother Used to Make/Some Old-Fashioned Candies

by Lydia Maria Gurney

SOME OLD-FASHIONED CANDIES

Chocolate Taffy

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

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.