Mom's Always Perfect Divinity
Mom's Divinity
This is a very forgiving and easy recipe for a very tricky candy to make. I don't think my mother or I have ever had a failure with this recipe, we may have had a few pieces that didn't set up for a couple of days, but they always did.
3 egg whites
3-3/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup light corn syrup
1 ts. vanilla
pecan halves to top candies
Beat egg whites until they are stiff yet moist, set aside in fridge. Put everything else except vanilla in large heavy sauce-pan, and heat over med./med.high heat. Cooking and stirring, raising your spoon out of the pan to watch for "thread" stage. Small "threads" will fly away when candy is ready, almost like small hairs, and they will fly away from the spoon, they don't drip straight. Now you need two sets of hands, while your DH mans the beater and the egg whites, you will slowly pour 1/3 of the syrup into the whites beating constantly. When thoroughly mixed and cooled some, you can set that aside. When done pouring syrup, return the pan to the heat and continue cooking until, using a cup of cold water, you can hear it reach the "cracking" stage. When dropped out of the sauce pan into the cold water it will almost sound like breaking glass. When you hear this, you will need more hands again to man the beaters while you pour the rest of the syrup into the whites, then add the vanilla. When finished, continue beating; you beat until you think it may set up in the bowl before you get it all out; (sorry, that is the only way I know how to describe it);it will be very thick but still alittle shiny. Then drop by teaspoons onto waxed paper and put a pecan half on top of each, you may have to move to a cool room for the first few you took up to set-up, but they will eventually.
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