Cocoanut. One-half pound sugar, two tablespoons
water, one-half pound grated cocoanut; stir until
boiled to a flake. Put in buttered tins and cut in
squares when cold.
Cocoanut Drops. One cup prepared cocoanut, white
of one egg beaten to a froth, one-half cup sugar, one
spoonful flour✪ Cocoanut Drops; mix, then drop on buttered tins and
bake five minutes in a quick oven. Flavor to taste.
102 CANDIES.
Cream. One pint sugar, one-half pint water, one
tablespoon vinegar✪ Cream; boil hard twenty minutes, but do
not stir. Work in vanilla as you pull it.
Cream Walnuts. Into the white of an egg stir
-enough powdered sugar to roll into balls; flavor to
suit the taste. Dip halves of English walnuts into a
syrup made by boiling two tablespoons sugar and one
tablespoon water✪ Cream Walnuts three or four minutes; then place
one-half walnut on either side of each ball and press
together. Dates may be used in the same way.
Ice Cream. Two cups granulated sugar, scant cup
water; as soon as this boils add one-fourth teaspoon
cream tartar dissolved in watei ; then boil without stir-
ring until brittle when dropped in water; add butter
the size of a walnut✪ Ice Cream just before taking from the stove;
pour into a buttered dish to cool and pull as hot as
possible until white. Flavor while pulling with lemon
and vanilla.
Kisses. Whites four eggs, two cups sugar✪ Kisses. Flavor
as you please, drop on a tin covered with paper, and
bake in a moderate oven.
Molasses. One pint molasses, one pound white
sugar, large tablespoon vinegar, half coffee cup cold
water, piece butter large as a walnut✪ Molasses. Boil all to-
gether in a spider without stirring twenty miiflites.
Orange Drops. Juice and grated rind of one orange,
little lemon juice; stir in confectioners' sugar till stiff
enough to roll out into balls✪ Orange Drops. No cooking.
Peppermints. One cup sugar, one-half cup water✪ Peppermints,
boil, stirring often, twenty minutes. Take from the
stove and add half teaspoon cream tartar and pepper-
mint to taste.
CANDIES. 103
Taffy. I. Six cups white sugar, one cup vinegar,
one cup water; boil without stirring one-half hour;
when done stir in one tablespoon soda✪ Taffy dissolved in hot
water. Flavor with vanilla and pull.
2. One-half pound brown sugar, three ounces
butter, one and one-half cups cold water. Boil all to-
gether with the rind of one lemon, adding juice when
done.
Stuffed Dates. One pound dates stoned, and filled
with one-half pound peanuts salted✪ Stuffed Dates, baked and then
chopped up fine. After the dates are filled roll in
granulated sugar.
CHAFING-DISH COOKING.
" To be good, be useful. To be useful, always be making sometbing good."
Cheese Fondu. Put tablespoon butter in the chafing-
dish; when melted, add cup fresh milk, cup of fine
bread crumbs, two cups grated cheese, saltspoon of
dry mustard, little cayenne. Stir constantly and add,
just before serving, two eggs, beaten light.
Curried Fish. Cook one tablespoon of onion, cut
very fine, in one tablespoon butter five minutes; be
careful not to burn; mix one tablespoon curry powder
with one tablespoon flour, and stir into the melted
butter; add gradually one-half pint milk or cream,
stirring constantly; then add a large cupful any kind
of cold boiled fish; let it simmer a few minutes and
serve very hot.
Lobster, Chop or shred the meat of a cold, boiled
lobster, tail and claws; pour over it the juice of two
lemons, add one-half teaspoon cayenne and a tea-
spoon salt; put in the chafing-dish three tablespoons
fresh butter; when melted add the lobster. Let it
simmer for about ten minutes stirring constantly.
Lobster a la Newburg. Take the nicest part of two
small lobsters, cut into small pieces like dice, put into
the chafing-dish with a tablespoon butter; season well
with pepper and salt, pour over it a gill of wine; cook
ten minutes; add the beaten yolks three eggs and half
pint cream. Let all come to a boil and serve
immediately.
CHAFING-DISH. 10$ ✪ Cheese Fondu
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Cocoanut. One-half pound sugar, two tablespoons water, one-half pound grated cocoanut; stir until boiled to a flake. Put in buttered tins and cut in squares when cold.
Cocoanut Drops. One cup prepared cocoanut, white of one egg beaten to a froth, one-half cup sugar, one spoonful flour; mix, then drop on buttered tins and bake five minutes in a quick oven. Flavor to taste.
Cream. One pint sugar, one-half pint water, one tablespoon vinegar; boil hard twenty minutes, but do not stir. Work in vanilla as you pull it.
Cream Walnuts. Into the white of an egg stir -enough powdered sugar to roll into balls; flavor to suit the taste. Dip halves of English walnuts into a syrup made by boiling two tablespoons sugar and one tablespoon water three or four minutes; then place one-half walnut on either side of each ball and press together. Dates may be used in the same way.
Ice Cream. Two cups granulated sugar, scant cup water; as soon as this boils add one-fourth teaspoon cream tartar dissolved in watei ; then boil without stirring until brittle when dropped in water; add butter the size of a walnut just before taking from the stove; pour into a buttered dish to cool and pull as hot as possible until white. Flavor while pulling with lemon and vanilla.
Kisses. Whites four eggs, two cups sugar. Flavor as you please, drop on a tin covered with paper, and bake in a moderate oven.
Molasses. One pint molasses, one pound white sugar, large tablespoon vinegar, half coffee cup cold water, piece butter large as a walnut. Boil all together in a spider without stirring twenty minutes.
Orange Drops. Juice and grated rind of one orange, little lemon juice; stir in confectioners' sugar till stiff enough to roll out into balls. No cooking.
Peppermints. One cup sugar, one-half cup water, boil, stirring often, twenty minutes. Take from the stove and add half teaspoon cream tartar and peppermint to taste.
Taffy. I. Six cups white sugar, one cup vinegar, one cup water; boil without stirring one-half hour; when done stir in one tablespoon soda dissolved in hot water. Flavor with vanilla and pull.
2. One-half pound brown sugar, three ounces butter, one and one-half cups cold water. Boil all together with the rind of one lemon, adding juice when done.
Stuffed Dates. One pound dates stoned, and filled with one-half pound peanuts salted, baked and then chopped up fine. After the dates are filled roll in granulated sugar.
CHAFING-DISH COOKING.
" To be good, be useful. To be useful, always be making sometbing good."
Cheese Fondu. Put tablespoon butter in the chafingdish; when melted, add cup fresh milk, cup of fine bread crumbs, two cups grated cheese, saltspoon of dry mustard, little cayenne. Stir constantly and add, just before serving, two eggs, beaten light.
Curried Fish. Cook one tablespoon of onion, cut very fine, in one tablespoon butter five minutes; be careful not to burn; mix one tablespoon curry powder with one tablespoon flour, and stir into the melted butter; add gradually one-half pint milk or cream, stirring constantly; then add a large cupful any kind of cold boiled fish; let it simmer a few minutes and serve very hot.
Lobster, Chop or shred the meat of a cold, boiled lobster, tail and claws; pour over it the juice of two lemons, add one-half teaspoon cayenne and a teaspoon salt; put in the chafing-dish three tablespoons fresh butter; when melted add the lobster. Let it simmer for about ten minutes stirring constantly.
Lobster a la Newburg. Take the nicest part of two small lobsters, cut into small pieces like dice, put into the chafing-dish with a tablespoon butter; season well with pepper and salt, pour over it a gill of wine; cook ten minutes; add the beaten yolks three eggs and half pint cream. Let all come to a boil and serve immediately.
CHAFING-DISH. 10$
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