Sugar Candy. Maltese Cross
6 cups of white sugar.
½ cup of butter.
2 table-spoonfuls of vinegar.
½ teaspoonful of soda.
1 cup cold water.
Vanilla flavoring.
Pour water and vinegar upon the sugar, and let them stand, without stirring, until the sugar is melted. Set over the fire and boil fast until it “ropes.” Put in the butter; boil hard two minutes longer, add the dry soda, stir it in and take at once from the fire. Flavor when it ceases to effervesce.
Turn out upon greased dishes, and pull with the tips of your fingers until white.