Bygone Recipes – Sweets

Ingredients

• 3 cups brown sugar (approx. 600g)
• ¾ cup water (180ml)
• 2 tablespoons butter (28g)
• ⅛ teaspoon soda
• 1 teaspoon flavoring
• few grains salt

Method

1. Boil all ingredients until a thread is formed when dropped from a spoon.
2. Pour into hot buttered pans, crease, and let stand until hard.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 1 cup brown sugar (approx. 200g)
• 1 cup molasses (240ml)
• ⅓ cup butter (76g)
• ⅛ teaspoon soda
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• few grains salt

Method

1. Boil all ingredients until a thread is formed when dropped from a spoon.
2. Pour into hot buttered pans, crease, and let stand until hard.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 1 cup molasses (240ml)
• 1 cup sugar (approx. 200g)
• ⅔ cup butter (approx. 152g)
• ⅔ cup milk (160ml)
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• few grains salt

Method

1. Cook all ingredients until brittle when tried in cold water.
2. Pour into hot buttered pans, crease, and cool.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 2 cups molasses (480ml)
• 2 tablespoons butter (28g)
• 1 cup brown sugar (approx. 200g)
• ½ cup boiling water (120ml)

Method

1. Cook all ingredients until brittle when tried in cold water.
2. Pour on to hot buttered platter; pull when cool enough to handle; shape in a sheet two inches wide, cover with a layer of fondant, then with a layer of molasses candy, press together and cut in inch pieces.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar (approx. 200g)
• ½ cup cream (120ml)
• 2 tablespoons butter (28g)
• 1 cup cocoanut (approx. 85g)

Method

1. Cook sugar and cream twelve minutes; add butter and cocoanut.
2. Pour into greased pans, crease, and cool.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar (approx. 400g)
• 1 cup water (240ml)
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. Cook sugar, water and cream of tartar until brittle when tried in cold water; add vanilla; pour on to greased platter or marble.
2. Pull as soon as it can be handled.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 1 cup maple sugar (approx. 170g)
• ½ cup water (120ml)
• 1 tablespoon butter (14g)
• salt
• flavoring

Method

1. Boil until brittle, pour into greased pan, crease, and cool.
2. One cup nut meats may be added just before pouring into pans.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 2 cups molasses (480ml)
• 2 cups brown sugar (approx. 400g)
• ⅓ cup vinegar (80ml)
• 1 cup water (240ml)
• 2 tablespoons butter (28g)
• salt

Method

1. Boil ingredients until brittle when tried in cold water.
2. Pour into hot buttered pan; pull when cool enough to handle.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar (approx. 400g)
• 2 cups shelled peanuts (approx. 340g)

Method

1. Melt sugar; when a golden brown, add chopped nuts; pour into hot buttered pan, crease, and cool.. Serve hot.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard