Divinity Candy - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. sugar
2/3 c. white Karo syrup
2/3 c. cold water
2 egg whites
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. nuts (if desired)

Preparation

Cook sugar, syrup and water to soft ball stage, 238\u00b0.
Pour very slowly over the egg whites which have been beaten until stand up in peaks.
Continue beating until hard enough to drop from a spoon (it will lose its glossy look).
Add vanilla, right after, start beating and nuts after beating, just before dropping from spoon.