Chocolate Maple Nut Divinity

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups brown sugar
• 1 cup maple syrup
• ½ cup glucose or pure corn syrup
• ½ cup water
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 egg whites
• 1 cup chopped nut meats
• 2 squares Baker's Chocolate, broken into pieces

Method

1. 1 Combine brown sugar, maple syrup, glucose, and water in a saucepan. Stir over low heat until sugar dissolves, then cover and boil for 5 minutes.
2. 2 Uncover and boil to the soft-crack stage (287°F or a hard rattle in cold water). Stir constantly during the final stage of cooking.
3. 3 Add salt and chocolate, stirring until melted. Slowly pour the hot syrup into beaten egg whites while beating constantly.
4. 4 Fold in chopped nuts. Pour into a pan lined with waxed paper.
5. 5 Let set for 15 minutes, then lift out using the paper edges and cut into small squares or oblongs.