Recipe 52

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Recipe name and category: Dorothy’s Divinity-Dessert

No. of servings: 30 pieces

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Recipe ingredients and directions:

2-3/4 cup sugar (reserve ¼ cup)

¾ cup corn syrup

¼ cup water

2 tsp vanilla

2 egg whites

1 cup nuts, walnuts or pecans are best

Boil 2-1/2 cups sugar with corn syrup and water. Boil until mixture spins a long thread. (Using a candy thermometer it will read Hard Boil.)

Beat 2 egg whites and vanilla until stiff. GRADUALLY add 1/4 cup sugar to the egg whites. The GRADUALLY add the syrup, sugar, and water boiled mixture. [It is helpful if you have an automatic mixer (not hand held) to use that with the egg whites so you can add the sugar and syrup. Or else have a cooking buddy beat while you add sugar.] Beat until mixture stands in a peak.

Drop by teaspoon onto wax paper to make individual candies.

VARIATIONS: You can use food coloring to make the candies pink, green, blue, etc. Also instead of vanilla you can use other flavorings such as almond, chocolate or peppermint.

Hint: This recipe tends to turn out better if you can make it in lower humidity.

Recipe source: This is from my mother.

Recipe anecdote: She made it every “holiday”, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and for parties. It has always been a “family staple” and was probably the most often requested recipe from my friends, because it tends to be one that “everyone’s grandmother made”.