Читать книгу A Little Candy Book for a Little Girl - Waterman Amy Harlow (Lane) - Страница 9

After Betsey let the sugar and water come to the boiling point she added the cream of tartar dissolved in one teaspoon of hot water and continued to boil until a little of the syrup dropped in cold water had nearly reached the hard ball stage, then she added the butter.

When it had quite reached the hard ball stage Betsey took it from the fire, dropped in the four drops of peppermint and poured the candy into a buttered pan to cool.

Greasing her finger-tips just as she did for the lemon and vanilla cream candy, Betsey proceeded to pull until white and then cut it in small pieces.