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Sultana Caramels

Farmer’s period recipe for Sultana Caramels, faithfully transcribed from the public-domain edition.

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What you’ll need

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • ½ cup milk
  • ¼ cup molasses
  • ¼ cup butter
  • 2 squares chocolate
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ cup English walnut or hickory nut meat, cut in pieces
  • 2 tablespoons Sultana raisins

Make it happen

Directions

  1. 1

    Put butter into a saucepan; when melted, add sugar, milk, and molasses. Heat to boiling-point, and boil seven minutes. Add chocolate, and stir until chocolate is melted; then boil seven minutes longer. Remove from fire, beat until creamy, add nuts, raisins, and vanilla, and pour at once into a buttered tin. Cool slightly, and mark in squares. The nut meats and raisins may be omitted.

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