Show TO MARE IN THE CHAFING DISH How to Prepare Vanilla and Chocolate Choco-late Caramels Harpers Bazar Now that cold weather with its cand making possibilities is once I more upon us the owner of a chafing I dish may add a convivIal feature to many an evening spent in her house if she wlll bring forth her chafing dish and In It compound some delicious homema candy The chafing dish will prove the center of attraction and Interest and wlll supply the often soughtfor something to do on a wInters wIn-ters evening Very delicious and eas to prepare In a chafing dish Is a certain brew of vanilla caramels Put into the blazer I two cupfuls of sugar a cup of cream and two generous tabiesuoonfuls of butter Stir constantly to prevent scorchln until a little of the boIlIng liquid will turn to a firm paste If dropped in iced water Remove from the fire stir In two teaspoonfuls of vanilla va-nilla extract and beat hard for several minutes before turning the mixture into buttered pans to cool Mark off In squares These are relished by people who like granulated or sugared caramels cara-mels i Chocolate caramels with nuts may be prepared by cooking together in the I blazer a pound of brown sugar a quarter quar-ter of a pound of grated chocolate and half a cup of water When the candy I I hardens in water stir into it one table I spoonfui of butter and a cup of chopped I walnuts or hlckorynuts Bent hard and remove from thC fire Turn into pans and cut into squares If a peanut molasses candy is desired it is well to havEi the peanuts prepared beforehand This Is done by shelling I skinning and splitting them and putting put-ting a layer of them into the bottom I of a greased pan Put In the chafing dish a CUD of genuine molasses one Of I brown sugar one tablespoonful of vinegar vine-gar and one of butter Boll together until the candy is crisp when tested in i cold water add threequarters of a teaspoonful of baking soda and pOUr the boiling candy over the peanuts This taffy should be very cold before it is eaten and tp hasten this end the pans may be set outside in the cold all or better stm in the snow A delicious maple sugar candy may also be made in the chafing dish Break into very small bits a pound of maple sugar and stir it Into a CUD of cream and one of mUle mixed Turn into the blazer and boll stirring all the time to prevent scorching until a little hardens har-dens In cold water Now beat into the candy as many hlckorynut kernels as it wlll take and then turn out to cool This may not look so pretty as smooth candy that can be cut into neat squares but It makes up in Dalateable ness for what it may lack In appearance appear-ance |