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Purity flour cookbook

1917

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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.
Two cups of confectioners' sugar and 1 cup of shelled and skinned peanutsPeanut 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 eachKisses, 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 aRaisin 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. Page One Hnndred and Forty-four PURITy FUQUR More Bread and Better Bread 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 sugarChocolate 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. Page One Hundred and Forty- five 't — f PURITY JS]£S FLOUR More Bread and Better Bread BUTTERSCOTCH 1 cup sugar. i cup water. paspoon viuegar. Gutter size of a walnut.