Cocoanut Candy
1/2 pound sugar, 2 tablespoons water, boil, 1/2 pound grated cocoanut. Stir till boiled to a flake. Put in buttered tins, and cut in squares, when cold.
Cream Candy
1 pint granulated sugar, 1/2 pint water, 1 tablespoon vinegar. Boil as molasses candy, but do not stir. Work in vanilla as you pull it.
Nut Candy
2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup milk. Boil ten minutes, then beat till white, adding nuts and vanilla. Spread on tins to cool. Cut in squares.
Peppermints
3 cups sugar, 3/4 cup butter. Boil together seven or eight minutes. Remove from the fire, and stir in 1/8 teaspoon cream tartar, 1/4 drachm of oil of peppermint. Beat until cool enough to drop on buttered plates, the size of a dollar.