This section is from the book "Mrs. Fryer's Loose-Leaf Cook Book", by Jane Eayre Fryer. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Fryer's Loose-Leaf Cook Book.
Make the same as chocolate fudge, substituting three tablespoons of cocoa for the two ounces of chocolate.
1 pound sugar
6 tablespoons syrup molas
2 ounces chocolate
1/2 cup milk
Butter size of walnut
1 teaspoon vanilla
Boil together the sugar, molasses, chocolate and milk until the mixture hardens when dropped in cold water. When nearly done add the butter; flavor after the candy is taken from the fire.
1/2 cup shredded cocoanut 1/2 wound brown sugar
3 ounces butter 3 teaspoons water
1 teaspoon vanilla
Put the sugar, butter and water into a saucepan; boil for ten minutes, stirring only occasionally. Stir in the cocoanut; test by dropping a spoonful in cold water. If the mixture hardens remove from fire; add flavoring; pour into buttered tins; mark off in squares and stand away to harden.
2 cups sugar
Pinch of cream of tartar
9 tablespoons water
10 drops oil of peppermint
Put the sugar, cream of tartar and water in a granite saucepan and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Boil ten minutes; remove from fire; add peppermint and beat until the mixture thickens; then drop from a spoon on buttered paper.
2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups milk or cream
Melt one cup of granulated sugar but do not let it brown; when a syrup add the milk or cream, then the remainder of the sugar, stirring constantly. Cook until it forms a solid ball when dropped in cold water. Pour out into a shallow pan, the bottom of which has been well greased with butter; mark off in squares and set aside to cool.
Boil syrup molasses for twenty-five or thirty minutes; stir into it corn that has been carefully popped; pour out on buttered tins and with greased hands form into balls.
Puffed wheat and rice may be made into balls in the same way,
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
Washed fruit
Boil the sugar and water until the syrup becomes brittle when dropped in cold water. Dip the fruit in the syrup and set in a cool place.
Follow the recipe for fruits glace. Put each nut on a long pin; dip it carefully and lay on oiled paper,
Lemon and orange peel if saved can be put to excellent use. Take out the greater portion of the white inside; throw the rinds into boiling water and simmer gently for twenty minutes. Drain, weigh and take a pound of sugar to every pound of peel. Put a layer of sugar and a layer of fruit into the preserving kettle; stand it over a slow fire until the sugar melts. When melted, cook slowly until the rinds are transparent. Lift them out; drain them and when nearly dry roll in granulated sugar.
 
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