A SUMMER BEVERAGE

Put into a jar 2 quarts of raspberries, and pour over them a quart of good vinegar. Let stand 24 hours, strain it well; pour this liquid over 2 more quarts of berries, let stand again 24 hours; strain it through a jelly bag. Allow ¾ pound of good white granulated sugar to every pint of juice, stir well, put into a stone jar and cover closely. Put it in a kettle of boiling water for one hour, strain, and bottle, seal, and it is ready for use the same summer. One teaspoonful to a glass of cold water is the way to prepare it for a beverage.

Mrs. R. R. Crapo.

CONFECTIONERY.

Granulated sugar is preferable. Candy should not be stirred while boiling. Cream tartar should not be added until syrup begins to boil. Butter should be put in when candy is almost done. Flavors are more delicate when not boiled in candy, but added afterward.

Abbie Mac Flinn.

French Vanilla Cream.

Break into a bowl the white of one egg, add to it an equal quantity of cold water and stir in XXX powdered sugar until it makes a cream stiff enough to mould. Flavor with vanilla and mould in any shape desired. This cream is the foundation of all French creams. Peppermint and wintergreen essence can be used instead of vanilla.

Candied Fruits and Nuts.

1 cupful of granulated sugar, 4 cupsful of water. Boil together until crisp when tried in cold water. Boil slowly and never stir. Set the kettle in a pan of hot water while using to delay crystalizing. Take on the end of a long pin, or string or thread, sections of oranges, stoned cherries, or other fruits or halves of walnuts, Brazilian nuts, etc., dip into the syrup until thoroughly coated and let harden on oiled paper.

French Cream Cherries.

Make a small round ball of French cream, cut a strip of citron the size of a cherry stem and put the ball of cream upon one end of it. Take a candied cherry, cut in two, and put one half on each side of the stem on the cream ball.

Chocolate Creams.

Take French cream, mould into shape and lay on waxed paper or a marble slab for 24 hours. Melt chocolate in a double boiler, take a cream on a fork, drop in the chocolate and roll till well covered. Then slip from fork to waxed paper, and leave in a cool place to dry.

English Walnut Creams.

Make French cream as directed above. Have ready some English walnuts. Make a ball of the cream about the size of a walnut and place a half nut meat on either side of the ball, pressing them well together. Lay away for a few hours to dry.

French Fruit Creams.

Take seeded raisins, currants, figs and citron. Chop fine and pour into French cream before the sugar is all mixed in. Make into a flat cake about an inch thick; and cut in oblong pieces, or inch squares. Nuts can be used in the same way.

Molasses Candy.

Required—3 cupsful of yellow coffee sugar, 1 cupful of molasses, 1 cupful of water, ½ teaspoonful cream tartar, butter size of a walnut. Boil until brittle, then turn quickly out on buttered plates. When cool, pull until white and cut in squares.

Abbie Mac Flinn.

Chocolate Candy.

1 cupful of grated chocolate, 3 cupsful of sugar, 1 cupful of milk, butter the size of a walnut. Cook for twenty minutes, then add 2 teaspoonsful of vanilla. After taking from stove beat until smooth. Pour out in tins. When cold, cut in squares.

Miss Maud Mercer.

Chocolate Caramels.

Take 1 cupful of sugar, ½ a cupful of molasses and ½ a cupful of milk. Boil fifteen minutes. Have ready 1 even dessert spoonful of flour and an equal quantity of butter stirred together and beaten to a cream. Add this to boiling mixture and boil five minutes more. Then put in ¼ cake of chocolate grated fine and boil the whole until thick. Pour on buttered tins.

Cooking Club.

Cream Taffy.

3 cupsful of granulated sugar, ½ cupful of water, ½ cupful of vinegar, butter size of a walnut. Boil until hard when dropped in cold water, but do not stir. Remove from fire, add 1 teaspoonful of vanilla and pour into buttered tins. When cool pull until white and cut with scissors. ¾ cupful of pounded hickory nuts placed in the pan before pouring on the taffy, gives it a delightful flavor.

Miss Ritzinger.

Nut Candy.

2 cupsful of granulated sugar, 1 cupful of peanuts or mixed hickory and walnut meats. Pour the sugar into a hot iron skillet and stir constantly until the sugar is dissolved. Then add the nuts and pour into hot buttered plates.

Mrs. D. W. Peasley.

¼ cake of baker’s chocolate, grated, 3 cupsful of sugar, 1 cupful of water, 1 cupful of milk, butter the size of an egg. Mix all ingredients and boil until stiff, but not brittle when tried in water. Pour into pans, stirring a little as it cools. Smooth and cut into squares.

Peppermint Drops.

1 pound of confectioner’s sugar, 6 tablespoonsful of water, 8 drops of oil of peppermint, scant ¼ teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Put 1 teaspoonful of sugar into a cup, drop onto that the oil of peppermint and stir up, adding the cream tartar. Boil the rest of the sugar with the water three minutes, or until it forms a thread at the end of a spoon. Do not stir the syrup. Remove from fire as soon as done and add the mixture from the cup. Stir briskly until it turns white and creamy. Drop from a teaspoon (making rounds any size you wish) onto previously prepared paper—either waxed paper or what has been rubbed with sweet oil, or fresh butter, or thick cream. If the candy hardens too much to drop, put on the fire and stir until it grows thinner, then drop as before.

M. B. Robertson.

Nut Glaces.

Take out the kernels of assorted nuts in as good shape as possible. Make a syrup of 1 pint of granulated sugar and 1 pint of water. Dip in the nuts, a few at a time, take out quickly with a fork and lay on a buttered pan to harden.

Abbie Mac Flinn.

Butter Taffy.

2 cupsful of sugar, white or brown, ¾ cupful of vinegar, ½ cupful of butter. Boil until brittle when tested in water. Pour into buttered pans.

Champaign Sugar Candy.

3 pints of sugar, ½ pint each of vinegar and water, 1 tablespoonful of butter added when almost done boiling. Boil about twenty minutes, or until it will crisp in cold water. Flavor at the last minute and pour into buttered dishes. Pull thoroughly as soon as it is cool enough to handle.

Walnut Creams.

2 cupsful of granulated sugar, 4 cupsful of milk, 4 cupsful of water, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. Mix sugar, milk and water. Boil steadily four minutes. Pour into a platter, not buttered, and beat with a fork. While beating add vanilla. When cool enough to handle roll into small balls and place between pieces of walnuts.

Molasses Candy.

1 tablespoonful of butter, 3 cupsful of molasses, 1 teaspoonful of soda. Melt the butter in a spider, pour in the molasses, boil until crisp, stir in soda, pour into buttered plates, and when cool pull. If butter is melted first the candy seldom boils over. This recipe requires very little boiling.

Maple Cream Candy.

2 cupsful of maple sugar, 1 cupful of cream, 2 cupsful of chopped nuts. Boil sugar with cream until it strings, stirring constantly. Just before removing from fire stir in the nuts. Take from stove, stir until nearly stiff, pour into buttered plate. In place of cream, one cup of milk and a teaspoonful of butter may be used. Sometimes the milk curdles when beginning to boil; this is no objection, as it becomes smooth when cold.

Hoarhound Candy.

2 cupsful of molasses, 1 tablespoonful of butter, 1 teaspoonful of hoarhound, ½ cupful of water. Steep the hoarhound in the warm water, add the tea so made to the other ingredients, and boil until crisp when tried in water.

Nut Candy.

Put 2 cupsful of sugar in a hot spider and stir until thoroughly dissolved. Then add 1½ cupsful of any kind of chopped nuts, walnuts preferred, and pour into buttered pans.

Mrs. C. E. S.

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