Skip to content

Divinity Candy

A historical recipe from Aunt Caroline's Dixieland recipes, by Emma McKinney, William McKinney (1922).

A historical recipe

Aunt Caroline's Dixieland recipes, by Emma McKinney, William McKinney (1922). Project Gutenberg eBook #71119.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From Aunt Caroline's Dixieland recipes, by Emma McKinney, William McKinney (1922). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #71119 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71119). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

Read the original Public domain in the USA

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

United States. Associated with United States by the book is about Southern US cookery (its title: Dixieland recipes); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

Create an image with FoodStudio Made by our AI generator from your own prepaid SecondMem credits. We keep no picture from the source.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Three cups of white sugar, Three-fourths cup of white Karo syrup, Whites of two eggs, Three-fourths cup of water, One teaspoonful of vanilla.
  2. Put sugar, syrup and water on to cook.
  3. Let it cook until it will form a hard ball when tried in cold water.
  4. Remove from stove and pour gradually over stiffly beaten whites.
  5. Add vanilla and one cup of nuts and beat until creamy.
  6. Pour into buttered plates and cut into squares when cold.