This section is from the book "Lowney's Cook Book", by Maria Willett Howard. Also available from Amazon: Lowney's Cook Book.
3 cups brown sugar.
¾| cup water.
2 tablespoons butter.
⅛ teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon flavoring.
Few grains salt.
Boil all ingredients until a thread is formed when dropped from a spoon. Pour into hot buttered pans, crease, and let stand until hard.
1 cup brown sugar 1 cup molasses ⅛ cup butter.
⅛ teaspoon soda.
1 tablespoon vinegar.
Few grains salt.
Cook in the same way as Butter Scotch No. 1.
1 cup molasses 1 cup sugar ⅔ cup butter.
⅔ cup milk.
1 tablespoon vanilla.
Few grains salt.
Cook all ingredients until brittle when tried in cold water. Pour into hot buttered pans, crease, and cool.
2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon cream of tartar.
1 cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Cook sugar, water and cream of tartar until brittle when tried in cold water; add vanilla; pour on to greased platter or marble. Pull as soon as it can be bandied.
2 cups sugar 2 tablespoons butter.
½ cup cream 1 cup cocoanut.
Cook sugar and cream twelve minutes; add butter and cocoanut. Pour into greased pans, crease, and cool.
2 cups molasses 1 cup brown sugar.
2 tablespoons butter ½ cup boiling water.
Cook all ingredients until brittle when tried in cold water. Pour on to hot buttered platter; pull when cool enough to handle; shape in a sheet two inches wide, cover with a layer of fondant, then with a layer of molasses candy, press together and cut in inch pieces.
2 cups molasses 2 cups brown sugar ⅓ cup vinegar.
1 cup water.
2 tablespoons butter salt.
Boil ingredients until brittle when tried in cold water. Pour into hot buttered pan; pull when cool enough to handle.
1 cup maple sugar ½ cup water.
1 tablespoon butter salt.
Flavoring.
Boil until brittle, pour into greased pan, crease, and cool. One cup nut meats may be added just before pouring into pans.
2 cups sugar 2 cups shelled peanuts.
Melt sugar; when a golden brown, add chopped nuts; pour into hot buttered pan, crease, and cool.
 
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