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1 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

• Mix the sugars, milk and butter together.
  
• Cook over moderate heat, stirring frequently until a soft ball forms.
• Remove from heat and let set for 15 minutes.
• Beat until creamy.
• Add vanilla and whip until smooth.
• Ice cake.

3/4 cup dark brown sugar
1 tablespoon espresso powder
1/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

• Mix the sugars, espresso powder, milk and butter together.
  
• Cook over moderate heat, stirring frequently until a soft ball forms.
• Remove from heat and let set for 15 minutes.
• Beat until creamy.
• Add vanilla and whip until smooth.
• Ice cake.

Recipe (page 90) adapted from ‘A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband’ by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron