Boil 4 minutes. Place sauce pan in cold water and beat until cold enough to make into little balls. Take j/2 cake Baker’s Chocolate✪ Chocolate Drops, shave off fine and set it in a bowl in the top of a tea kettle to melt. When balls are cool enough, roll in chocolate with fork. Above makes 80. GG THE EDWARDSVILLE COOK BOOK. SALTED ALMONDS. Mrs. Sholes, Omaha, Neb. Blanche by pouring boiling water over almonds✪ Salted Almonds ; slip off the skins, put in a pan up over the range to dry several hours, then brown in a hot oven until a golden brown, then add a little but- ter and plenty of salt. COCOANUT KISSES. Anonymous. Whites of 2 eggs. Enough cocoanut to mold into 4 tablespoons powdered sugar✪ Cocoanut Kisses. shape. Bake in very slow oven. PEANUT CANDY. 2 CUDS granulated sugar. 1 cup peanuts. 2 tablespoons water✪ Peanut Candy. Put sugar and water in skillet over moderate fire and stin constantly until all melted ; then add the peanuts ; mix well and put into buttered pan to cool. MACAROONS. Mrs. L. M. Armstrong. Crush a pound of blanched almonds until a smooth paste; mix in a pound and a half powdered sugar and the beaten whites of seven eggs✪ Macaroons. Mix all together until smooth and firm Butter sheets of writing paper, put in pans and drop the paste on in small teaspoonfuls. If paste A too thin, add more sugar, if too thick more white. Bake in moderate oven 20 minutes. MARGUERITES. Mrs. M. J. Kennard, Omaha, Neb. 1 cup brown sugar. V2 cup flour. V4 teaspoon baking powder. Whites 2 eggs. 1-3 teaspoon salt. 1 cup pecan nuts✪ Marguerites. Beat the whites slightly, add other ingredients except nuts which should be placed on top of each when put into oven. CONFECTIONERY. 167 Bake in small tins putting one tablespoon of the mixture in each division. HICKORY NUT MACAROONS. Mrs. W. H. Hall. Take meats of hickory nuts, pound fine, and add ground spice and nutmeg. Make frosting as for cakes✪ Hickory Nut Macaroons. Stir meats and spices in, putting in enough to make it convenient to handle. Flour the hands and make balls the size of nutmegs. Lay them on buttered tins, giving room to spread. Bake in quick oven. 168 THE EDWARDSVILLE COOK BOOK. t %r JOSEPH HLAD CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Phone 118 Y. Main Street OVERBECK BROS. PAINTERS AND PAPER HANGERS. Dealers in Wal Paper, Paints, Glass, Room Moulding and Window Shades, Telephone 119 Y. WOOD & ANDERSON PAINTERS AND PAPER HANGERS. Estimates Cheerfully Furnished. First-Class Work Done Cheap. Phone 134 Y. WM SCHULZE PAINTER AND PAPER HANGER, Phone 127 Y. Lindell Ave. i W". P- SCHULZE Contractor for Kansas St. Phone 134 L f QHARLES THUER CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Estimates Furnished. Residence, Kansas St. Office, Hillsboro Ave. ^ ADVERTISEMENTS. 160 -ijur :!; EDWARD BARNETT Dealer in LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIAL. St. Louis St., near Wabash. Phone 32 R. <* H. P. HOTZ, President. $ HOTZ LUMBER CO. Incorporated. Established 1883 4 LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES, ETC. Main Street, above Court House. JOHN STOLZE & SON Dealers in LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIAL. Give Us a Chance to Figure With You. RICHARDS BRICK WORKS Yards Located on Railroads. FIRST-CLASS BUILDING BRICK Always on Hand. QRIE T. DUNLAP GENERAL CONTRACTOR. Concrete Work, Brick Paving, Granitoid, Grading, Concrete Blocks, Railroad and Sewer Work. XHOS. J. MORTON HOUSE MOVER, Heavy Machinery Moved. Excavating Done. 170 THE EDWAR'DSVILLE COOK BOOK. CHAPTER XIII. PRESERVES, etc.

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Boil 4 minutes. Place sauce pan in cold water and beat until cold enough to make into little balls. Take j/2 cake Baker’s Chocolate, shave off fine and set it in a bowl in the top of a tea kettle to melt. When balls are cool enough, roll in chocolate with fork. Above makes 80. GG THE EDWARDSVILLE COOK BOOK. SALTED ALMONDS. Mrs. Sholes, Omaha, Neb. Blanche by pouring boiling water over almonds ; slip off the skins, put in a pan up over the range to dry several hours, then brown in a hot oven until a golden brown, then add a little but- ter and plenty of salt. COCOANUT KISSES. Anonymous. Whites of 2 eggs. Enough cocoanut to mold into 4 tablespoons powdered sugar. shape. Bake in very slow oven. PEANUT CANDY. 2 CUDS granulated sugar. 1 cup peanuts. 2 tablespoons water. Put sugar and water in skillet over moderate fire and stin constantly until all melted ; then add the peanuts ; mix well and put into buttered pan to cool. MACAROONS. Mrs. L. M. Armstrong. Crush a pound of blanched almonds until a smooth paste; mix in a pound and a half powdered sugar and the beaten whites of seven eggs. Mix all together until smooth and firm Butter sheets of writing paper, put in pans and drop the paste on in small teaspoonfuls. If paste A too thin, add more sugar, if too thick more white. Bake in moderate oven 20 minutes. MARGUERITES. Mrs. M. J. Kennard, Omaha, Neb. 1 cup brown sugar. V2 cup flour. V4 teaspoon baking powder. Whites 2 eggs. 1-3 teaspoon salt. 1 cup pecan nuts. Beat the whites slightly, add other ingredients except nuts which should be placed on top of each when put into oven. CONFECTIONERY. 167 Bake in small tins putting one tablespoon of the mixture in each division. HICKORY NUT MACAROONS. Mrs. W. H. Hall. Take meats of hickory nuts, pound fine, and add ground spice and nutmeg. Make frosting as for cakes. Stir meats and spices in, putting in enough to make it convenient to handle. Flour the hands and make balls the size of nutmegs. Lay them on buttered tins, giving room to spread. Bake in quick oven. 168 THE EDWARDSVILLE COOK BOOK. t %r JOSEPH HLAD CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Phone 118 Y. Main Street OVERBECK BROS. PAINTERS AND PAPER HANGERS. Dealers in Wal Paper, Paints, Glass, Room Moulding and Window Shades, Telephone 119 Y. WOOD & ANDERSON PAINTERS AND PAPER HANGERS. Estimates Cheerfully Furnished. First-Class Work Done Cheap. Phone 134 Y. WM SCHULZE PAINTER AND PAPER HANGER, Phone 127 Y. Lindell Ave. i W". P- SCHULZE Contractor for Kansas St. Phone 134 L f QHARLES THUER CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Estimates Furnished. Residence, Kansas St. Office, Hillsboro Ave. ^ ADVERTISEMENTS. 160 -ijur :!; EDWARD BARNETT Dealer in LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIAL. St. Louis St., near Wabash. Phone 32 R. <* H. P. HOTZ, President. $ HOTZ LUMBER CO. Incorporated. Established 1883 4 LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES, ETC. Main Street, above Court House. JOHN STOLZE & SON Dealers in LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIAL. Give Us a Chance to Figure With You. RICHARDS BRICK WORKS Yards Located on Railroads. FIRST-CLASS BUILDING BRICK Always on Hand. QRIE T. DUNLAP GENERAL CONTRACTOR. Concrete Work, Brick Paving, Granitoid, Grading, Concrete Blocks, Railroad and Sewer Work. XHOS. J. MORTON HOUSE MOVER, Heavy Machinery Moved. Excavating Done. 170 THE EDWAR'DSVILLE COOK BOOK. CHAPTER XIII. PRESERVES, etc.

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