From Grandmother's Recipe Box

Old- Time Easy Caramels

  

• Three cups granulated sugar
• One-cup white corn syrup
• One-cup heavy cream
• One-cup milk
• Two tablespoons cornstarch
• Four tablespoons butter
• One half teaspoon salt
• One-teaspoon vanilla
• Two cups meat nuts

 

Thoroughly mix cornstarch and sugar. Add corn syrup, cream, milk, butter and salt. Stir until sugar is melted.

Cook over a low fire until a few drops tried in cold water are as hard when picked up in the fingers, as the caramels should be when finished.

Remove from fire and let cool a few minutes before adding nuts and vanilla.

Turn into a thickly buttered square pan and let stand until cold and hard. Turn out, up side down on a slab and cut with a butcher knife into even squares. Wrap in oiled paper.

Shebolith Says...these are absolutely the very best caramel candies you have ever put in your mouth. The flavors are rich and buttery.