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Directions:Measure water and corn syrup into a heavy 2 qt saucespan and bring to a boil.Remove pan from heat. Add sugar and stir to dissolve well. Cover pan and place over heat again and bring to a second boil. Cook about 3 minutes or until stream inside the pan has melted all the sugar crystals down from the sides. Remove cover and continue cooking without stirring to a hard-ball stage (254º). Watch very carefully during the last stages of cooking as the temperature will rise very rapidly.
While the syrup is cooking, place egg whites in a large bowl (you will need lots of room for beating) and beat until they are just stiff enough to hold their shape.
When syrup has reached the cooked stage, start pouring it over the egg whites in a very fine stream, beating vigorously with a slotted spoon. Add the syrup a little more rapidly toward the end. Do not scrape the pan! This takes a lot to pour and beat vigorously all by yourself!
When all the syrup has been added, measure in the vanilla and nuts. Keep up the beating, changing to a heavy spoon. Rest if you are doing this alone. This is where two people can take turns beating because you do have to beat this for a long time.
When the candy is thick, creamy, and has lost its gloss (that is the real key), and holds its shape, drop by a teaspoon onto waxed paper. It will so tempting to stop beating before it has lost its gloss and before it holds its shape really well.
Do not double the recipe. Remake if you want more than 24 pieces. |
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Notes: Of all the candy Mom loved to make for her family, this was her favorite (and mine as well). I absolutely loved divinity and Mom even mailed it to me often when I lived in Des Moines.
The really special thing of this candy was the making it with her. You have to stir this a really long time.
Mom made this every time for school fund-raisers and it was all gone within an hour after the sale started.
Mom has noted by this recipe "Every time I added the nuts, my candy did not harden as well as it was suppose to and the batches got smaller."
This a wonderful fun activity to do with children. Betty Fricke
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