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A Little Candy Book For a Little Girl

Amy Lane Waterman

Book Overview: 

Join Betsey Bobbitt, a girl with an undeniable sweet tooth, as she discovers new recipes for candy and sweets to make with the reader. An entertaining cookbook with a narrative!

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .little of the syrup dropped in cold water had nearly reached the hard ball stage, then she added the butter.

When it had quite reached the hard ball stage Betsey took it from the fire, dropped in the four drops of peppermint and poured the candy into a buttered pan to cool.

Greasing her finger-tips just as she did for the lemon and vanilla cream candy, Betsey proceeded to pull until white and then cut it in small pieces.

Betsey's Orange Cream Candy Sugar (granulated), 2 cups Water, ½ cup Cream of tartar, ¼ teaspoon Butter, Size of a walnut Flavoring (orange), 1 teaspoon

Betsey called this her own recipe, because, while it was made exactly like the "Lemon," "Vanilla," and "Peppermint Cream Candy," she said to mother one day, "Why can't I use orange flavoring and have still another change?" Mother told her there was no reason[23] at all why she couldn't, and that she was glad to see Betsey thinking out . . . Read More

Community Reviews

This is a candy cookbook with a story. The story is not that interesting, which makes me give it only 3 stars. It was published in 1918, but written before the Great War - the war isn't mentioned in the story, but in both the foreword and a small appendix with recipes using less sugar, so that most