Molasses Chocolate Caramels

Molasses Chocolate Caramels

Ingredients:
1/2 cup milk
2 cups molasses
3 squares

Directions:
unsweetened
chocolate
1 cup brown
sugar
Chapter XXXIII − FANCY CAKES AND CONFECTIONS 632
The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook
1 teaspoon vanilla
Put butter into kettle; when melted, add molasses, sugar, and milk. Stir until sugar is
dissolved,
and when boiling−point is reached, add chocolate, stirring constantly until chocolate is
melted.
Boil until, when tried in cold water, a firm ball may be formed in the fingers. Add vanilla just
after
taking from fire. Turn into a buttered pan, cool, and mark in small squares.
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Nut Chocolate Caramels
To Chocolate Caramels add the meat from one pound English walnuts broken in pieces, or
one−half pound almonds blanched and chopped.
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Rich Chocolate Caramels
2 tablespoons
butter