Divinity
(from cokerlj’s recipe box)
Mother would make this every Christmas…it’s one of those recipes that you have to be sure the weather is clear with low humidity.
Source: Millie Vasek Bartek
Categories: Candy, Christmas, Czech Family Recipes
Ingredients
- 2 1/8 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup water
- 2/3 cup white Karo
- 3 egg whites stiff beaten
- 1 cup pecan pieces
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
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Cook sugar, water and Karo fast until it reaches hard crack stage on a candy thermometer. Be careful and don’t burn or start to caramelize the sugar, it should still be clear for a snow white candy.
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Pour very slowly into stiff beaten egg whites, mixing with a heavy duty mixer as you add syrup. Continue beating with heavy mixer or by hand until mixture looses its gloss.
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Stir in pecans, vanilla.
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Working very quickly, drop by teaspoon full onto wax paper which has been greased with margarine.