Cream Candy - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 1/2 C. white sugar
1/2 C. boiling water
1/2 C. cream
1/2 stick butter
pinch salt

Preparation

Cook in open kettle or heavy pan. Put sugar, salt and boiling water in pan; stir over low heat until dissolved. (Don't let boil at this time.) Add cream; stir only one time. When candy starts boiling, cut butter in slices and drop into candy. Cook until it says crack on the thermometer (290 degrees). Pour on buttered marble or dish. Pour 2 tsp. vanilla on candy. Pull candy when cool.