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Rich Chocolate Caramels

A historical dessert recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons Butter
  • ½ cup Milk
  • ½ cup Sugar
  • 1 cup Molasses
  • 4 squares Chocolate
  • 1 cup Walnut Meats broken in pieces
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Put butter in saucepan and when melted add milk, sugar and molasses. When boiling-point is reached add chocolate, and cook until brittle when tried in cold water, stirring occasionally to prevent mixture from adhering to pan.

  2. 2

    Remove from fire, beat three minutes, add nut meats and vanilla, and turn into a buttered pan. When cold cut in squares and wrap in paraffine paper.

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Where this recipe comes from

Rich Chocolate Caramels, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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