Mrs. W. H. Wilson's New Cook Book

Mrs. Wilson's plain-spoken new cook book — farina to fruit cake in level measures and few words.

Candy

12 recipes in this part of Mrs. W. H. Wilson's New Cook Book.

Fudge

3 cups sugar. 1 cup cream. 1 tablespoon butter. When sugar is melted add four or five tablespoons of cocoa. Stir and boil fifteen minutes…

Dipped Marshmallows

2 cups sugar. 1 cup milk. One cup of caramel sugar poured into milk and sugar while boiling; when nearly done put in one tablespoon of…

U. No All Mints

2 cups sugar. 1 cup water. 1 tablespoon butter. 1 teaspoon mint extract. Cook until soft ball stage. Pour out on greased marble. When a…

Candy Pudding

2 pints granulated sugar. 1/2 pint water. 2 tablespoons vinegar. 1 tiny pinch of soda. Mix all together, put on low fire until thoroughly…

Nougat

4 cups granulated sugar. 3 egg whites. 1/2 cup Karo syrup (white). 1/2 lb. almonds. 1 teaspoon Webb's vanilla. 1 teaspoon Webb's lemon. Put…

Caramels

2 cups brown sugar. 1 cup cream. 3 tablespoons butter. 1/2 cup chocolate. Let cook until thick, add butter and chocolate. Remove from fire…

French Fondant

The variety made from fondant is limitless. It is made with white and maple sugar. The white may be colored any shade and any flavor can be…

Marshmallows

2 cups sugar. 1 cup water. 3 small pinches cream tartar. 2 tablespoons gelatin soaked in 7 tablespoons water. Put on to cook, when sugar…

Mary Elizabeth's Butter Scotch

6 tablespoons Nectar drip molasses. 5 tablespoons granulated sugar. 2 tablespoons water. 1 tablespoon butter. Cook until cracks in cold…

Daisy's Cream Candy

3 pints sugar. 1 pint boiling water. 1 teaspoon vinegar. 3 teaspoons cream or rich milk. Pinch salt. Cook until forms a hard ball in cold…

Cocoanut Cream Candy

1 cocoanut--milk and meat. 1 1/2 lbs. sugar (3 cups). Put on sugar with milk from cocoanut; after it boils ten minutes add grated cocoanut…

Martha Woolwine's Candy

2 cups brown sugar. 2 cups Caro syrup. 1 tablespoon vinegar. Cook until strings, then cool and pull.

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