from Mom

Ingredients:

2  1/2 cups gran. sugar

1/2/cup white corn syrup

1/2/ cup water

2 egg whites

pinch salt

1 tsp. Vanilla

Combine sugar, corn syrup and water. Mix well.

Cook over low heat, stirring with a wooden spoon until sugar dissolves. Brush down crystals with dampened pastry brush. Boil to 260deg. on candy thermometer.

Beat egg whites with salt until stiff but not dry.

Take syrup from stove and let stand until bubbling ceases. Pour in slow steady stream over egg whites, beating all the time. Beat with electric mixer until fairly stiff.

Take off beater stand and beat by hand, using a wooden spoon, until mixture loses its gloss. Beat in vanilla. Pour into square pan and mark off into squares, or drop by tsp. On waxed paper, or push through cookie press.