Honey Squares Recipe

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Ingredients for Honey Squares Recipe

  • 1 cup strained honey
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening
  • ½ cup cream
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • Pinch cream of tartar
  • 1 teaspoon lemon extract

Instructions

  1. Put vegetable shortening, salt, honey, cream and sugar into saucepan; stir over slow fire until dissolved, then add cream of tartar.
  2. Boil until it forms a hard ball when tested in cold water, or 252 degree F.
  3. Remove from fire, stir in lemon extract, and pour into vegetable shorteninged tin.
  4. Mark into squares before cold.
  5. Wrap in waxed paper.
  6. Sufficient for twenty-five squares.

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