Name: Molasses Candy (Candi Tire a la Melasse)
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: ½ Teaspoonful of Soda; 2 Tablespoonfuls of Vinegar; A Tablespoonful of Butter; A Pound of Granulated Sugar; A Quart of Louisiana Molasses; The Juice of a Lemon

Louisiana is rightly the home of Molasses Candy, for it was right here, in this old city, in the environments of which sugar was first raised in the United States, and Molasses, sweet and health-giving, was first given to the world, that Molasses Candy, or Candi Tire, as the Creoles call it, first had birth. Candi Tire parties, or Molasses Candy Pullings, were among the pleasurable incidents of life among the early New Orleans belles and beaux. Take: