Old-Fashioned Divinity Candy with Walnuts (1935)

• 1 cup Karo
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 cup walnuts, chopped
• 2 egg whites
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tbspn black walnut flavoring

Cook sugar and water until it forms a firm ball in cold water. Pour slowly over egg whites, and beat until like mashed potatoes.

Add walnuts and flavoring, and spread into a buttered pan. Cut into squares.

(Origin - My grandmother's collection of recipes from neighbors and friends. All recipes are handwritten, typed or newspaper clippings, from the 1930s to 1950s.  My grandmother was a farmer's wife in California's Central Valley. This recipe was by Chloe Gould of Coalinga, California.) 

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Sweet Potato Cinnamon Loaf Cake with Vanilla (1935)

Mahogany Cake with Sour Cream (1936)

Oatmeal Coconut Cookies with Dates, Figs (1935)

Caramel Meringue Pie (1935)