fact the
bonbons may be used in any desired way.
DIVINITY
Boil two cups of granulated sugar, one-half cup of corn syrup and
one-half cup of water until it will thread. Beat into the stiff whites
of two eggs; add one cup of nuts. Beat until cool and thick. Pour out,
cool, and when set, cut into squares.
FUDGE
Boil together two cups of granulated sugar, one-eighth teaspoon of salt
and one cup of milk or cream, until when tried in cold water, it will
form a soft ball (about eight minutes). Add one-half a cake of Baker's
chocolate, two tablespoons of butter and one teaspoon of vanilla. Beat
until smooth and creamy; pour into greased pans; cool and cut in
squares.
PINOCHE
Take one cup of (packed) medium brown sugar, one-quarter cup of cream,
one-third cup of nut meats, one-quarter pound pecans, weighed in shell,
and one-third pound hickory in shell. Cook sugar and cream to soft ball
test. Cool until you can bear your hand on bottom of pan. Stir until it
begins to thicken, add chopped nuts; and when it is too thick to pour
easily, spread quickly on a buttered pan, cut in squares and cool.
FRUIT LOAF
Chop coarsely one-half cup of raisins, one-half cup of nuts, one-half
cup figs or dates, add enough honey or corn syrup to make a stiff loaf,
about two tablespoons. Place in ice-box for one hour, slice and serve in
place of candy, rolling each slice in cornstarch.
GLACE FOR CANDIES
Boil one pound of sugar with one-half pint of water until it ropes; then
add one-half cup of vinegar and boil until it hardens. Dip in fruit,
orange slices, nuts or green grapes with stems on, and put aside on a
buttered platter to set.
ORANGE CHIPS
Can be made after the fruit has been used. Halve, scoop out, then scrape
inside; lay the peel in salt water overnight. Make syrup of two cups of
sugar and one cup of water. When boiled thick, cut orange-peel in small
strips and drop them into boiling liquid, letting them remain about ten
minutes. Remove strips carefully, spreading them on waxed paper to dry.
Grape-fruit rind may be used as well as that of oranges.
CANDIED CHERRIES, PINEAPPLE AND OTHER FRUITS
Boil, but do not stir, one-half pound of loaf sugar in one breakfast cup
of water. Pit some cherries, or prepare any desired fruit, and string
them on a thread, then dip them in the syrup; suspend them by the
thread. When pineapples are used, slice them crosswise and dry them on a
sieve or in the open ai
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