The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps

The pattern people's household book, 1927 — five hundred recipes, then how to lay a table, take out a stain and stock a first-aid cabinet.

Candies

12 recipes in this part of The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps.

Chocolate Fudge

⅛ teaspoon cream of tartar or 2 tablespoons corn sirup or glucose

Maple Fudge

Break the maple sugar into small pieces and heat it in a saucepan with the water. When it is dissolved, add the milk. Boil to the soft-ball…

Fudge with Marshmallow Cream

Put the sugar, water, grated chocolate and salt into a saucepan and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Boil slowly to the soft-ball stage…

Penoche

Put the sugar and milk into a saucepan and cook to the soft-ball stage, or 236° F. Remove from the fire, add butter and vanilla, and cool…

Fondant

2 tablespoons corn sirup or ⅛ 1 cup water teaspoon cream of tartar

Wintergreen Creams

Melt a portion of fondant in the upper part of a double boiler until it is soft enough to drop from a spoon. It may be necessary to add a…

Vanilla Caramels

1 cup cream or condensed milk Cook the ingredients, except the vanilla, to the firm-ball stage, or 246° F. Remove from the fire, add the…

Molasses Taffy

Cook the molasses, sugar and water slowly to the hard-ball stage, or 260° F., stirring during the latter part of the cooking to prevent its…

Nougat

Boil together one-half the sugar, half of the water and half of the corn sirup to the crack stage, or 280° F. Remove the sirup from the…

Popcorn Balls

Discard all imperfect kernels of corn. Put the corn into a large pan. Cook sugar, sirup and water to the crack stage, or 270° F. Add…

Peanut Brittle

Put the granulated sugar into an iron frying-pan and heat slowly until the sugar is melted and turns a light brown, or slightly above 300°…

Glace Fruits

Make a sirup of the sugar and water. Boil, without stirring, to the hard-crack stage, or 300° F. Remove the saucepan from the fire and set…

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