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Molasses Candy

Take 1 quart molasses, 1½ pounds brown sugar, the juice of a large lemon and 12 drops oil of lemon; mix the molasses and sugar together, butter the inside of a kettle and put it in. Let it boil over a moderate fire for 2 hours, then add the lemon juice and boil 1/2 hour; stir it often, to prevent it from burning; when thoroughly done it will cease boiling; then butter a pan The the purpose of keeping Arkansas and other and put it in to cool; if sufficiently done it will stones in proper condition for sharpening in- be crisp and brittle, if not it will be tough and struments is so general as to be almost, if not ropy. Nuts of any kind may be added just entirely, to the exclusion of every other sub- before it is put in the pan; they must be well stance. The tendency, however, to become stirred in. The candy may be worked ly gummy, and clog the surface of the stone keeping the hands well covered with flour, or.. after it has been on a short time, and the by greasing them well with butter. liability of soiling the fingers and imparting working must be done as soon as it is cool an unpleasant odor to them, make the use of enough to handle. It may be made of mooil objectionable. All this can be readily ob- lasses only-in this case it requires longer viated, however, by using soap in place of oil, as follows:-Rub a piece of toilet soap and a little water over the surface of the stone until a thick lather is formed, and then allow this to dry. When occasion arises for putting an together, put it in a china lined saucepan over edge on a tool, a few drops of water will moist- the fire. Let it boil steadily and gently until, en the soap and place the stone in proper con- by dropping a little on a plate and cooling it, dition for use at once. This plan is one that has been successfully employed for years.