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Things Mother Used to Make by Lydia Maria Gurney
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2 Teaspoonfuls of Vinegar
Butter the size of a Walnut
1/4 Teaspoonful of Soda

Put the molasses, vinegar and butter into a saucepan. Boil until it
strings when dropped from a spoon, or until it is brittle when dropped
into cold water. Stir the soda in briskly and pour into a buttered tin.
When nearly cold, pull until nearly white. Cut into small pieces or
sticks and lay on buttered platter.



=Butter Scotch=

1/2 Cupful of Molasses
1/2 Cupful of Sugar
1/2 Cupful of Butter

Boil until it strings. Pour into buttered tin and when cold break into
pieces. This is very nice when cooled on snow.



=Pop Corn Balls (very old recipe)=

1 Cupful of Molasses
Piece of Butter, half the size of an Egg

Boil together until it strings and then stir in a pinch of soda. Put
this over a quart dish full of popped corn. When cool enough to handle
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