Choice Caramels Recipe 1

Ingredients for Choice Caramels Recipe 1

• 1 pound of sugar (2 cups)
• 1/2 pound of butter (1 cup)
• 1 pound of glucose (3/4 cup)
• 1 pint of cream

Instructions

1. Put the sugar, glucose, butter and half of the cream over medium heat and stir until it boils throughout.
2. Then stir in gradually - so as not to stop the boiling - a second cup of cream.
3. Put in sugar thermometer, and let the mixture boil, stirring every three or four minutes, until the thermometer registers 250 degrees F.
4. Then stir in a teaspoon of vanilla, and turn the candy into two brick-shaped bread pans, nicely buttered, or onto an oiled marble between steel bars, to make a sheet three-fourths of an inch thick.
5. When nearly cold, cut in cubes.
6. Roll these at once in waxed paper or let stand twenty-four hours to dry off.
7. Without a thermometer, boil the mass to a pretty firm hard ball.
8. The time of boiling varies, but often an hour is required.
9. In summer, the caramels will hold their shape better if boiled from two to four degrees higher.