Divinity - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. sugar
1/2 c. white corn syrup
1/2 c. water
2 egg whites
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Place syrup, sugar and water in heavy saucepan and cook over low
heat.\tStir
only
until
sugar
is dissolved.
Cook until syrup
mixture
reaches
soft ball stage.
Check this by dropping syrup
into ice water.
Beat egg whites on high speed until stiff. Continue beating egg whites and pour off half of syrup
(soft ball
stage)
over egg whites.
Continue cooking remaining half of\tsyrup
until
it
forms a hard crack.
Add remaining
syrup and
vanilla.
Beat
until\tmixture is stiff enough to spoon onto wax paper.