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AUNT BELL'S BROWN CANDY Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
6 cups white sugar
1 pint cream or canned milk
¼lb.butter or margarine
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 pint nuts (pecans)
1 lb. powdered sugar
Directions:
Directions:

Place 2 cups sugar in a heavy skillet over low heat to a nice golden brown. Stir constantly being careful not to let sugar get too brown.

At the same time, place the remaining 4 cups sugar and cream in a 4-quart kettle over low heat,
stirring constantly until sugar is dissolved. Add butter.

When sugar and cream mixture is almost hot, pour browned sugar into it in a tiny stream, stirring constantly . Cook to a soft ball stage (about 248° ). Remove from heat and add vanilla, soda and nuts. Stir the mixture as it cools.

Finally sprinkle powdered sugar (you will use about ⅔ of a box of powdered sugar before you are finished) on a bread board and knead about¼ of the candy at a time. Knead each batch about 75 times. Mold into a roll and wrap in waxed paper.

NOTE : If you drip a tiny bit of the mixture into a cup of water and a ball forms, the candy is at the soft ball stage.

 

 

 

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