Divinity

Ingredients:

• 4 cups granulated sugar
• 1 cup light (not dark) corn syrup
• 1 cup water
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3 egg whites (room temperature)
• 1 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1 tsp vanilla
• food coloring

Preparation:

• Combine sugar, corn syrup, water, and salt in heavy saucepan.
• Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture starts to boil.
• Continue cooking until mixture forms soft ball when tested in cold water (or use a thermometer).
• In the mean time, beat egg whites until stiff - then pour 1/2 cup of syrup over whites, beating fast all the time.
• Continue to cook remaining syrup while beating egg whites, until syrup reaches the light crack stage when dropped in cold water
  (this will happen quickly).
• Pour remaining syrup over egg white mixture, beating all the while.
• Continue beating until candy begins to hold its shape.
• Stir in vanilla and nuts and food coloring. Drop by teaspoonful onto waxed paper.
• Makes 50-60 pieces.

If the weather is damp or humid then test the hardness of the syrup in a small bowl filled with water that has been chilled with ice cube. When you drizzle some of the syrup into the bowl it is ready when it stays floating; in the air and does not sink to the bottom - then WORK REAL FAST. Test a spoonful on waxed paper, if it keeps its shape after just a second you can start to spoon. If you wait until it is too firm, the last 1/2 of the batch will be too difficult to spoon out. You can pour this into a foil lined pan that has been Pam sprayed then cut into squares if you are not comfortable spooning it out.

 


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