Strawberry Divinity

Ingredients

• 3 cups sugar
• 3/4 cup light corn syrup
• 3/4 cup water
• 2 egg whites (beaten stiff)
• 1 (3 oz) package strawberry gelatin (or cherry, or any flavoring)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Steps

1. Combine sugar, syrup and water in saucepan; bring to a boil, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon.
2. Boil to hard ball stage. Have egg whites beaten with wire whisk until stiff when syrup reaches hard ball.
3. Pour half into egg whites, beating constantly.
4. Put other half back on and cook to half a minute more.
5. Pour into egg whites a little at a time and beat all the time until all used.
6. Beat until it starts to set up. Put in mounds on wax paper.

Notes

Margin note (front): ‘add 1 tsp Powdered Sugar with Vanilla’

Margin note (front): ‘use a large platter & wire whisk’

Margin note (back): ‘add Vanilla & half PKG Gelatin’

Card originally said ‘soft ball’ in two places, corrected to ‘hard’; ‘hard ball stage’ crossed out and replaced with ‘half a minute more’.

Photo: stock photo found online.

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