Maple Chocolate Balls
1/2 pound maple sugar, broken fine, and dissolved with 1/4 cupful cold water. When perfectly dissolved let it boil hard five minutes. Break up 1/4 cake of chocolate and put in a bowl over boiling water to melt; this can be done by removing the lid from the tea-kettle and setting the bowl in its place. Take the sugar from the fire, put in a cool place and beat until stiff enough to make into balls, about the size of marbles. Place on buttered plates to harden and then drop one by one into the melted chocolate. Turn with a fork until completely covered and place on buttered paper to harden.