2 cupfuls sugar 1 cupful water 1 teaspoonful extract of peppermint

Measuring cup

Saucepan

Teaspoon

Two thick glasses

Brown paper

Measure 2 cupfuls of granulated sugar and put it in a saucepan.

Add 1 cupful of cold water, and set the pan on a hot part of the stove.

When it comes to a boil, look at the clock and boil for about 20 minutes, stirring from time to time.

When you think it's done, try a little, by dropping half a teaspoonful into a glass of cold water.

If it is done it will get stringy and hard in the water.

When you are sure that it is ready, take the pan from the stove, and pour the syrup into two glasses.

Pour 1/2 teaspoonful of peppermint extract at once into each glass and let each child stir the mixture in his glass rapidly with a teaspoon until the syrup gets thick and creamy white.

Have a large flat sheet of brown wrapping paper ready on your kitchen table and onto this drop little round dabs of the mixture as rapidly as possible.

Don't let the mixture get too cool and stiff by stirring it longer than necessary.

When entirely hard and cold, the peppermints can be lifted off with a knife.

This makes about half a pound.