Jim crows

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       Title: Jim Crows
  Categories: Candies, 1941
       Yield: 6 servings
  
       2    Squares unsweetened
            -chocolate
       2 c  Sugar
     1/2 c  Cold water
     1/3 c  Corn sirup
       1 c  Chopped peanuts
       1 ts Vanilla
  
   Grate chocolate.  Add water, sugar, and sirup.  Boil to soft ball
   stage (234 - 238 F).  Remove from fire.  Add peanuts and flavoring.
   Cool slightly.  Beat until mixture begins to crystalize. Drop by
   teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper. Mrs. Bertha E. Thorson, Osage, MI.
  
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