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Show nine KITCHEN CABINET (2, Wesiern Newspaper Union.) I know not in what metal I have wrought. Nor whether what I fashion w'.ll be thrust Beneath the clods that hide forgotten for-gotten thought. But if It is of gold it will not rust. And when the time is ripe it will be brought Into the eun. and glitter through its dust. Eugene Lee -Hamilton. HOME CANDY MAKING There are few homes where the rounr people do not delicht to make their own Christmas candies. can-dies. Here are a few-simple few-simple recipes that even the beginner will find easy to make. Peanut Brittle. Take two cupfuls of granulated granulat-ed sugar, put Into a smooth iron frying pan and set over the heat. Stir constantly while it is melting and when a golden brown pour over a cupful of shelled peanuts which have been placed in a buttered dripping pan. Cool and break into pieces. For variety va-riety just before taking from the heat add one-fourth of a teaspoonful of soda, stir well then pour over the nuts. This is a peanut brittle which Is not so hard and Is liked better by many on that account. College Cream. Boil logether one pound of brown sugar and one cupful of water until it hardens In water. Beat the white of an egg very stiff and pour the hot sugar over It, b ating all the time; when it begins to be creamy add a half-cupful or more of broken nut meats. Chocolate Caramels. Put two and one-half tahlespoonfuls of butter into a kettle ; when melted add two cupfuls of molasses, one cupful of brown sugar and one-half cupful of milk,. Stir until the sugar is dissolved and when the boiling point is reached add three squares of chocolate, stir constantly until the chocolate is melted. Boll until a firm ball can be gathered with the fingers from a drop, put Into cold water. Add vanilla and turn into buttered but-tered pans to cool. Mark In squares before It is too bard. Glace. This Is a glace which may be used for dipping fruit or nuts. Boil two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful ot water and one-eighth of a teaspoonful of cream of tartar to 290 degrees Fahr. without stirring. Check the heat by placing the saucepan In cold water, then immediately place It in a pan of boiling water to keep the glace In con dition for dipping. Lemon Honey. Take one cupful of sugar, one-eighth cupful of butter, one large lemon, grated rind and juice, two eggs, one soda cracker rolled fine as flour. Cook all together until the consistency con-sistency of honey. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonfngs of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. It matters not how straight the gate. How charged with punishment the scroll, I am tho master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. - Henley. CAKES FOR CHRISTMAS TIME If one wishes to give a very choice and acceptable present at holiday time there Is none which win prove more popular tc the friends who are not housekeeping than a well-made well-made fruit cake: The following fol-lowing recipe may he divided di-vided Into small individual individ-ual pans, making twe dozen half-pound cakes or five or six larger loaf cakes. Fruit cake is not Inexpensive; the raw materials ma-terials alone will be quite an Item II many cakes are prepared. Sponge Cake for Two. Beat th( yolks of two eg'-'S until light, and adi one-half cupful of sifted sugar am one-eighth teaspoonful of cream of tar tar dissolved In one teaspoonful oi cold water. Beat again till very light add the grated rind of one-quarter o a lemon or orange. Then add alter nately. one-half cupful of sifted floui and stiffly beaten e::g whites. I'.aki In a lightly greased floured pan fort; minutes or in patty tins. Luncheon Eclairs. Hake the usua cream puff in very small flnitcr-sizer puffs. When ready to serve, slit th. puff at the side and fill with a m'x tore i.'f finely diced bacon cooked or sp ly. and ino'sten.-d with chutn- yt s. rv hot. If chutney Is not to he ohtaine' a little chili sauce may be used Serve w:'h the salad course. The lit'le j.eoj.le I:.'l v love I make taincs. With a lltle pas'e an pretty wall paper they may cover pi..'-boxes pi..'-boxes nn-1 ira'.;e them very heaa' f- The-e they will Ii," to fill wp!i pi !.' nut H'lltnea's randy or I'! rlsVaa oah. s or c.vVaiec. A iarc... Iro-v; .. nslvc ha -l et ia:;y h used. d"cora'o ! v I'll croan l pin" an. ( 'led v.rh thirds liVe the above nddin a. pi.-s. ;, j. r of ho-: ; ,., le i .;!::..! a h-.-t'.. of it" ;- : as v.ell as fn! n.:.. - - " : ' '- arv tie g ft . Slit the :, of th ..re -,. I o is to r. ive it. |