Two cups of confectioners' sugar and 1 cup of shelled and skinned peanuts✪ Peanut Nougat. Put the sugar in a
saucepan, and as soon as dissolved throw into it the nuts, stirring rapidly, pour quickly into a buttered
pan and press into a flat cake with a buttered knife, as it cools very quickly.
KISSES
Beat whites of 4 eggs to stiff frotli. Stir into it \ pound powdered sugar. Beat until very light.
Drop in teaspoons on well-buttered paper. Lay the paper on an inverted pie tin and add \ walnut on top of
each✪ Kisses, just before putting in the oven. Bake very slowly till set.
BUTTER TAFFY
1 pound brown sugar.
1 cup water.
cup vinegar.
Butter the size of
Boil till brittle when tried in cold water. Walnuts, peanuts, cocoanut or almonds can be auded Ix- i
taking from the fire. If almonds, add them 5 minutes before the candy is done and stir occasionally to
keep from burning. Pour into buttered pans.
i
RAISIN FUDGE
Melt 2 table-spoons butter, add 2 cups sugar, f cup milk, heat to boiling point. Add 2 squares choco-
late, boil until it forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water. Eemove from fire, add 1 teaspoon vanilla
and, stir until creamy. Ju.st before it becomes creamy add f package seeded raisins a✪ Raisin Fudgend \ cup nuts, then
p^r into a buttered platter and mark in squares.
RAISIN CHOCOLATES
/ Select smooth. Foodless raisins. Put J--pound cake vanilla sweet chocolate in a saucepan over boiling
T.-nter. and when lor-ltod ndrl 2 level ten-ponns butter and 2 of boiling water. Drip raisins and put on
oiled paper.
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RAISIN BRITTLE
\ cup Brazil nuts.
\ cup slices cocoanut.
i cup seeded raisi^to.'
J cup figs. mi
Grease tin plates and scatter nuts an^ fruit over tl,em. Then boil the following ingredients until
brittle when dropped in cold water :
2 cups sugar.
1 teaspoon butter.
i cup vinegar.
I cup water.
Pour into plates containing fruit. Break in pieces when c
old.
HONEY CARAMELS
2 cups granulaleil siigai-.
i cup cream or Jiiil'
i cup honey.
I cup Initter.
fS CLl|-> (:il:*Ulil wi iiiiii^.
Mix the ingredi.nts,'heut and stir mUil the supu- is dissul.ed, then ~»k wiU>ou^stirrmg until a^
Si^-^.?r.red';i*::rc:."rrs;s^^
HONEY POPCORN BALLS
Honev can be heated up to about 245 degrees V. without being greatly changed in color or flavor. If
it isTrte'd carefully nrost'of the water is expelle-l. The honey then ^^^.^2'^^^'^^^^^^^^
be used for making popcorn balls. To make them, dip the popped corn mo the hot J^^^^y' J^ ^^
balls and cool. Honey popcorn balls absorb moisture on standing m the an. ihej must theretore
either kept very closely covered or reheated and dried before being used.
CHOCOLATE CARAMELS
Put 2 squares of Baker's chocolate in a granite pan over a slow fire When melted add Ij^jP "^^l^^^;;^;
i CUP milk and 1 cup of sugar✪ Chocolate Caramels. Stir until it has dissolved, but not after it boils for this w 1 make the
JarameTs graLy. When it Is brittle in cold water, pour into buttered plates and square with a greased
knife.
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BUTTERSCOTCH
1 cup sugar.
i cup water.
paspoon viuegar.
Gutter size of a walnut.
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Presented as published in 1917. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
Two cups of confectioners' sugar and 1 cup of shelled and skinned peanuts. Put the sugar in a saucepan, and as soon as dissolved throw into it the nuts, stirring rapidly, pour quickly into a buttered pan and press into a flat cake with a buttered knife, as it cools very quickly.
KISSES
Beat whites of 4 eggs to stiff froth. Stir into it \ pound powdered sugar. Beat until very light. Drop in teaspoons on well-buttered paper. Lay the paper on an inverted pie tin and add \ walnut on top of each, just before putting in the oven. Bake very slowly till set.
BUTTER TAFFY
1 pound brown sugar. 1 cup water.
cup vinegar. Butter the size of
Boil till brittle when tried in cold water. Walnuts, peanuts, cocoanut or almonds can be added by taking from the fire. If almonds, add them 5 minutes before the candy is done and stir occasionally to keep from burning. Pour into buttered pans.
RAISIN FUDGE
Melt 2 table-spoons butter, add 2 cups sugar, f cup milk, heat to boiling point. Add 2 squares chocolate, boil until it forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water. Eemove from fire, add 1 teaspoon vanilla and, stir until creamy. Just before it becomes creamy add f package seeded raisins and \ cup nuts, then p^r into a buttered platter and mark in squares.
RAISIN CHOCOLATES
Select smooth, seedless raisins. Put J--pound cake vanilla sweet chocolate in a saucepan over boiling T.-nter. and when melted add 2 level teaspoons butter and 2 of boiling water. Drip raisins and put on oiled paper.
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More Bread and Better Bread
RAISIN BRITTLE
\ cup Brazil nuts. \ cup slices cocoanut.
i cup seeded raisins. J cup figs. mi
Grease tin plates and scatter nuts an^ fruit over tl,em. Then boil the following ingredients until brittle when dropped in cold water :
2 cups sugar.
1 teaspoon butter.
i cup vinegar. I cup water.
Pour into plates containing fruit. Break in pieces when cold.
HONEY CARAMELS
2 cups granulated sugar. i cup cream or milk.
i cup honey. I cup Initter.
⅓ cup cocoanut or walnuts.
Mix the ingredients, heat and stir until the sugar is dissolved, then cook without stirring until a soft ball
[illustration: continued recipe]
HONEY POPCORN BALLS
Honev can be heated up to about 245 degrees V. without being greatly changed in color or flavor. If it is tried carefully most of the water is expelled. The honey then may be used for making popcorn balls. To make them, dip the popped corn in the hot honey, J^ ^^ balls and cool. Honey popcorn balls absorb moisture on standing m the an. they must therefore either be kept very closely covered or reheated and dried before being used.
CHOCOLATE CARAMELS
Put 2 squares of Baker's chocolate in a granite pan over a slow fire. When melted add 1½ cups sugar, i cup milk and 1 cup of sugar. Stir until it has dissolved, but not after it boils for this will make the caramels grainy. When it Is brittle in cold water, pour into buttered plates and square with a greased knife.
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BUTTERSCOTCH
1 cup sugar. i cup water.
1 teaspoon vinegar. Gutter size of a walnut.
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