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American Candy

Pour one pint of water and one-fourth pint of vinegar over six pounds of sugar and leave it until fully dissolved. Place a sugar-pan over the fire and let the contents boil fast till thick enough to put into ropes. Mix in them one-fourth pound of butter and boil hard for two minutes; stir in one teaspoonful of dry soda and remove the candy from the fire. Allow it to stand until the effervescence ceases and then stir in a flavoring of vanilla. Turn it out onto greased dishes, and with the tips of the fingers pull it until it is white.