unsweetened chocolate, 2 pounds brown sugar, 1
cup milk, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 of molasses. Boil till brittle. Pour in
pans and cut in squares.

=Molasses Candy.=

2-1/2 cups molasses, 1 of sugar, 1 tablespoon vinegar, a piece of butter
the size of a walnut. Boil twenty minutes briskly and constantly,
stirring it all the time. Pull until white.

=Cocoanut Candy.=

1/2 pound sugar, 2 tablespoons water, boil, 1/2 pound grated cocoanut.
Stir till boiled to a flake. Put in buttered tins, and cut in squares,
when cold.

=Cream Candy.=

1 pint granulated sugar, 1/2 pint water, 1 tablespoon vinegar. Boil as
molasses candy, but do not stir. Work in vanilla as you pull it.

=Nut Candy.=

2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup milk. Boil ten minutes, then beat till white,
adding nuts and vanilla. Spread on tins to cool. Cut in squares.

=Peppermints.=

3 cups sugar, 3/4 cup butter. Boil together seven or eight minutes.
Remove from the fire, and stir in 1/8 teaspoon cream tartar, 1/4 drachm
of oil of peppermint. Beat until cool enough to drop on buttered plates,
the size of a dollar.

=Vinegar Candy.=

2-1/2 cups sugar, 1-1/2 of water, 1/2 of vinegar. Do not stir. Cool
quickly and pull.

=Butter Scotch.=

1 cup molasses, 1 of brown sugar, 1/2 of butter. When nearly done, add a
little grated nutmeg, and if wished to be pulled, a pinch of soda.

=Corn Candy.=

Pop the corn, pick out all that is good, and pound it a little, just
enough to crack it. Boil about 2 teacups of molasses and a little sugar,
with a piece of butter, size of a walnut. Then (when the mixture is
boiled about as much as for candy), stir in the corn, and pour into
buttered tins.

=Orange Drops.=

Grate the rind of 1 orange and squeeze the juice, taking care to reject
the seeds. Add to this a pinch of tartaric acid, then stir in
confectioner's sugar till it is stiff enough to form in balls the size
of a small marble.

=Honey Candy.=

3 cups sugar, 1 of water, 3 tablespoons honey. Boil till fit for
pulling.

=Taffy--No. 1.=

1/2 pound chocolate, cut fine, 2 cups sugar, 2 of molasses, 1/2 cup
milk, piece of butter the size of an egg, flavoring. Boil twenty
minutes. Cool and mark off in squares just before it is cold.

=Taffy--No. 2.=

6 cups white sugar, 1 of vinegar, 1 of water. Boil one-half hour without
stirring. When done, stir in 1 tablespoon butter and 1 teaspoon soda,
dissolved in hot water. Season with vanilla, and p