Do you remember that the home ec. class made a huge batch of caramels in the spring of our freshman year?
Our teacher, Nan Winburn, said a friend who worked for the Fannie Farmer company had given her the famous candy maker's recipe for caramels. (Corporate security must have been vastly different in the 1960s.) I have no idea how much candy a commercial recipe would make and presume Mrs. Winburn cut the recipe considerably for our purposes, but the result was still an enormous amount of candy.
I remember nothing about the actual making of the candy and was likely not involved in that process. (As I had little aptitude and even less enthusiasm for cooking, Mrs. Winburn undoubtedly arranged to keep me as far away from hot viscous materials as possible.)
What I remember is cutting the many sheets of candy into pieces and wrapping each piece in waxed paper. Someone worked with me on this project. (Was it Mary?) The good thing was that we were allowed to leave study hall to work unsupervised in the Home Ec. room on this seemingly endless project. I remember that people--- teachers, the janitor, guys on their way to shop class--- kept dropping in for samples. Even though we were generous, each girl in the class had a large bag of caramels to take home.
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