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Snowdrift secrets

1913

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Presented as published in 1913. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Cupful Brown Sugar stir until it melts and burns; then add 1 Egg the water, the Snowdrift, the granulated 1 Tablespoonful Corn sugar and cornstarch mixed; stir until Starch boiling. Add the vanilla and pour, while 1 Tablespoonful Snowdrift hot, slowly into the well beaten egg. 1 Cupful Boiling Water 1 Teaspoonful Vanilla JELLY SAUCE ^ Pint Water Moisten the corn starch with the water, 2 Tablespoonfuls Snowdrift add the jelly, and stir until boiling; add ^ Tumbler Jelly, Currant the Snowdrift, and take at ence from the or Quince fire. 1 Teaspoonful Corn Starch SNOWDRIFT perfect shortening for PIE CRUST 44 CANDIES CHOCOLATE CARAMELS J£ Pound Chocolate Put all the ingredients into a saucepan; ^ Cupful Molasses heat and stir until the sugar is thoroughly 4 Tablespoonf uls Con- dissolved ; then boil until the mixture densed Milk hardens when dropped into cold water. 4 Tablespoonfuls Water Try the mixture every few minutes by 1 Pound Brown Sugar putting a few drops into a cup of ice 2 Tablespoonfuls Snowdrift water; if it hardens quickly, take it from 1 Teaspoonf ul Vanilla the fire. Turn the mixture into a pan brushed with Snowdrift, and when partly cool mark into squares, using a dull knife. Stand aside in a cool, dry place. When hard, break into caramels. PLAIN TAFFY ^ Pint Water Stir the sugar and water over the fire Y2 Pounds Sugar (Conf ec- until the sugar is dissolved, and boil until tioner's A) it forms a soft ball when dropped into 3 Tablespoonfuls Snowdrift cold water. Add the Snowdrift and 2 Teaspoonf uls Vanilla 1 emon juice and boil to the "crack," that Y^ Teaspoonful Lemon is, it must harden quickly and be per- Juice f ectly brittle when dropped into ice water. Add the vanilla and turn into shallow pans that have been brushed with Snow drift. WALNUT MOLASSES CANDY 1 Cupful New Orleans Mix the molasses, sugar, Snowdrift and Molasses vinegar together. Stir over the fire until 1 Cupful Brown Sugar the sugar is dissolved, and boil without 1 Tablespeonf ul Vinegar stirring until the mixture hardens when 1 Tablespoonful Snowdrift dropped into ice water. Grease deep 2 Cupfuls Black Walnut square pans with Snowdrift; fill nearly Kernels full with the walnut kernels, pour over the molasses candyMolasses Candy and stand aside until cool. SNOWDRIFT/cr delicious, digestible doughnuts 45 MY OWN RECIPES Every housekeeper has some tried and favorite recipes of her own, which she would like to have in a convenient place for reference. For this purpose, the following blank pages are included in "Snowdrift Secrets." Write or paste in your best recipes and remember that Snowdrift should be used wherever butter or lard is named in the old recipe. Snowdrift is all shortening and contains no salt or water, as butter does. Therefore use a third less Snowdrift and add a little salt. 46 SNOWDRIFT PERFECT SHORTENING THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO. NEW YORK • SAVANNAH -NEW ORLEANS • CHICAGO