This section is from the book "Popular Dishes", by Emily Marian Colling. Also available from Amazon: Popular dishes.
Two cups of molasses, one cup of sugar, three-quarters cup of butter. Put all the ingredients into a saucepan and boil, stirring constantly, until it will snap (not too sharply) when chilled in ice water. This will require about fifteen minutes. When done pour into a buttered pan and when partly cool, mark in desired shape. When cold, finish cutting and wrap each piece in confectioners' waxed paper.
One cup of brown sugar, one-eighth cup each of vinegar and water, one level tablespoon of butter, one-half teaspoon of vanilla or any extract preferred.
Put into a sauce pan the water, vinegar and sugar, stir until it begins to bubble, then boil without stirring until it reaches the soft ball degree, or until it spins a thread. Add the butter and cook until brittle when dropped into ice water. Pour onto a well greased pie tin, do not scrape the saucepan. When cool enough to handle, add flavoring and pull until light colored and stiff. Cut into one-inch pieces.
 
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