Read this one with the card open. Something on it is illegible, missing or ambiguous. It is transcribed exactly as written — nothing has been guessed or filled in — and every uncertainty is marked below.
Summary
A hand-dipped chocolate-covered maraschino cherry candy with a paraffin-firmed chocolate coating, worth checking before making a batch since the vanilla amount is not given.
Ingredients
- 1/2 c. "aleo" (likely "oleo," a period term for margarine — transcribed as written on the card)
- 1 egg white
- 1 box powdered sugar
- Dash of salt
- Vanilla (amount not specified on the card)
- 1 bottle maraschino cherries (21 count), drained
- 5 squares semi-sweet chocolate
- 1/3 – 1/2 square paraffin wax
Method
- Mix margarine, egg white, powdered sugar, salt, and vanilla in a bowl; whip by hand.
- With clean hands, wrap the mixture around the well-drained cherries.
- Melt semi-sweet chocolate in the top of a double boiler; add the paraffin wax.
- Dip wrapped cherries into the chocolate; drain on a rack.
Notes on the artifact
Handwritten in pencil on a single sheet of plain unlined paper. The title on the card reads "Chocolate Covered Cherrie" (missing the final "s"), transcribed here as "Chocolate Covered Cherries" for filing; the misspelling is noted, not silently corrected in the source. Undated and unsigned — no date, signature, or yield count appears on the card.
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