Aunt Dixie’s Divinity Recipe: A TEXAS KIND OF CHRISTMAS
Aunt Dixie’s Divinity (As written on the back of a birthday card envelope)
From Jodi Thomas
From Jodi Thomas
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- ½ cup water
- Dash of salt
Instructions
- Put 2 cups sugar, ½ cup water, and dash of salt in a heavy quart-size pan over medium heat.
- Bring to a boil. Should be rolling boil but not a crazy boil that climbs up the sides of the pan you’ll have a mess.
- Boil stirring most of the time and watching ALL the time for about 6 to 8 minutes until the mixture will go soft ball stage. (That means when you drop a drop of it in a small bowl of cold water, you can push it around with your finger and make a sloppy ball.) Once that happens, I usually let it boil for another minute just to make sure it’s ready.
- Next: Pour over marshmallow cream from a small jar (8 ounces), and start to mix on low for about 30 seconds, then kick it up to high for about 4-6 minutes. Sometime during this mixing, add 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
- Stop mixing when it starts to thicken, losses its shine, or the ripples the mixer makes stay up for three seconds.
- Add a cup of chopped nuts and make a few more rounds with the mixer
- Or: Wait and add a nut on top of each piece. May also add a cherry on top if you don’t like nuts.
- Using two spoons, drop candy on waxed paper.
- If the first few drops go flat, slow down a bit and give the candy time to cool a minute. Once the candy looks right coming of the spoon, move fast.
- This makes about three dozen candies. The first few will be flat, but they still taste just as good.
- The last few may be stiff so eat them first. If you decide to put the nut or cherry on top, be sure to dry the cherries on a paper towel first and put them on as soon as you drop all the candy.
- Never double the recipe. It won’t turn out.
Notes
Love you, kid, and remember, divinity is like birthdays, not every one turns out perfect.
- Aunt Dixie Kirkland
- Aunt Dixie Kirkland
