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Three Layer Caramels

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Three Layer Caramels

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a batch of Fine Caramel for Warm Weather.

  2. Pour out half of the caramel and mix the other half with ¾ pound of liquor chocolate until smooth.

  3. Set the mixture over low heat and pour it onto a greased slab, spreading it thin.

  4. In a pan over boiling water, melt 10 pounds of fondant until smooth.

  5. Pour the melted fondant over the chocolate caramel and spread it thin with a palette knife.

  6. Pat the cream with your hands until softened and the grain is broken.

  7. Turn the vanilla caramel upside down and wipe it with a damp cloth until sticky.

  8. Place the vanilla caramel on the cream, stick side down, and roll it with a rolling pin until firm.

  9. Cut into pieces with a sharp knife.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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